School Song
The School Song
GAUDEAMUS IGITUR
JUVENES DUM SUMUS
GAUDEAMUS IGITUR
JUVENES DUM SUMUS
PER JUCUNDAM JUVENTUTEM,
PER BEATAM SENECTUTEM
QUO NON ASCENDAM,
QUO NON ASCENDAM.
CONCINAMUS O SODALES
VIVAT ACADEMIA;
CONCINAMUS O SODALES
VIVAT ACADEMIA;
ECCE URSUS IAM RESURGENS,
ECCE NAVIS PORRO URGENS.
SEMPER SINT IN FLORE,
SEMPER SINT IN FLORE,
Let us rejoice, therefore,
While we are young,
Let us rejoice, therefore,
While we are young.
During happy youth,
During happy old-age
To what heights may I not ascend
To what heights may I not ascend.
Let us sing together, school companions,
Long live the school;
Let us sing together, school companions,
Long live the school.
Behold the bear now rising up,
Behold the ship forward pressing.
May they always flourish,
May they always flourish.
The Traditional School Hymn
Our Father, By Whose Servants
Our Father, by whose servants
Our house was built of old,
Whose hand hath crowned her children
With blessings manifold,
For thine unfailing mercies
Far-strewn along our way
With all who passed before us,
We praise thy name today.
Three hundred years enduring,
From age to following age,
A hundred generations
Have built our heritage;
Their name is long forgotten
Long spent their hopes and fears,
Safe rest they in thy keeping,
Who changest not with years.
They reap not where they laboured,
We reap what they have sown;
Our harvest may be garnered
By ages yet unknown.
The days of old have dowered us
With gifts beyond all praise
Our Father, make us faithful
To serve the coming days.
The Traditional School Prayer
Look with favour we pray thee O Lord upon this our school. Cherish and strengthen whatsoever is best in it and grant that it may ever stand firm in truth and righteousness. That happiness, beauty and reverence may be ever found within its walls and on its fields and that, so long as it shall remain, it may stand for all things of good report through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
