The King's Way The King's Way ”The King’s Way” is a poem set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909. The words were written by his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar. Elgar employs the melody of the "Trio" (central section) from the Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, which he had composed two years earlier. This first occurs at the words ""The newest street in London town,/ Who'll pace it up and pace it down?"" The song was written on 27 December 1909 to celebrate the opening of London's Kingsway, a wide street in central London connecting High Holborn to the
Land of Hope and Glory newly composed ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ March No. 1 was introduced as an orchestral piece (a year before the words were written), conducted by Henry Wood who later recollected "little did I think then that the lovely broad melody of the trio would one day develop into our second national anthem". It was played as "Land of Hope and Glory" in the last concert of the 1905 proms, and at the first and last concerts of the 1909 Proms, which also featured Wood's "Fantasia on British Sea Songs". The two pieces were played one after another at the closing concerts in