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Description: The School Song
Carmen
Youths who throng
The school, or older,
Your tasks completed, depart
or visit its doors
Raise a resounding song,
Putting your hearts into your voices,
Or you who are come as guests,
Sisters and parents
This united praise by us,
Is meet to be paid to God,
To whom the thanks of the college
Above all else are due
Not only for labours,
]Through the days' strenuous tasks,
In the practice of literature
Or in natural science
Nor merely on account of the contest
Which, in parti-coloured garments,
We engage in on the fields, not without
Brown ornament of mud;
Or when along the turf is driven
The swiftly hurled ball,
Next moment, hard though it be, is caught
By an adroitly stretched-out hand;
But chiefly because by They
cares, O God our Protector,
We keep our lives without offence
By these things and unstained by guilt.
Free from false things, we pray,
And vain things, may all be
Who shall wear the red and black
Under African skies.
(A translation given by the author,
F S Salisbury to R C Hepburn)
CARMEN
Qui frequentatis invenes
Scholam, vel seniores
Pensis peractis ceditis
Revisitisve fores,
Carmen sonorem tollite,
Cor vocibus addentes,
Vel qui venistis hospites,
Sorones et parentes.
Haec nobis collaudatio
Deo nunc tribuenda,
Cui gratia collegii
In primis est habenda:
Non solum pro laboribus
Per ardua dierum
In exercendis litteris
Vel de natura rerum:
Nec tantum ob certamina
Veste quae discolore
Miscemus pratis, non sine
Fusco ceani decore;
Aut cum per gramen pellitur
Pila cito coniecta,
Deinde dura capitur
Scite manu porrecta;
Sed maxime quod per tuas,
Deus patrone, curas
Vitas servamus integras
Hinc scelerisque puras.
Falsis, precamur, liberi
Sint omnes atque vanis,
Rubrum nigrumque qui gerent
Caelis sub africanis.
Collections: Kingswood College Digital Archive
Subcollections:
Kingswood College Manuscripts
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Credit: Kingswood College / Kingswood College Manuscripts
Keywords:
Notes,
School Song,
Carmen,
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