UNIV. OF VINNOJIVO FAIR HARVARD! 漫 AIR HARVARD! thy sons to thy jubilee And with blessings surrender thee o'er; By these festival rites, from the age that is past, To the age that is waiting before. O relic and type of our ancestors' worth, That has long kept their memory warm, First flower of their wilderness, star of their night, To thy bowers we were led, in the bloom of our youth, When our fathers had warned, and our mothers had prayed, And our sisters had blest through their tears. Thou then wert our parent, the nurse of our souls; We were moulded to manhood by thee; Till, freighted with treasure-thoughts, friendships, and hopes, Thou didst launch us on Destiny's sea. NO VINU 2 LAURIGER HORATIUS. When, as pilgrims, we come to revisit thy halls, To what kindlings the season gives birth! Thy shades are more soothing, thy sunlight more dear, Than descend on less privileged earth; For the good and the great, in their beautiful prime, Through thy precincts have musingly trod, As they girded their spirits, or deepened the streams That make glad the fair city of God. Farewell! be thy destinies onward and bright! With freedom to think, and with patience to bear, Let not moss-covered error moor thee at its side, Be the herald of light and the bearer of love, LAURIGER HORATIUS. AURIGER Horatius, Quam dixisti verum, Fugit Euro citius, Tempus edax rerum. Chorus. Ubi sunt, O, pocula, Dulciora melle, Rixæ, pax et oscula Rubentis puellæ. The thirst that from the soul doth rise, But, might I of Jove's nectar sip, I sent thee late a roseate wreath, It could not withered be. 3 4 GAUDEAMUS. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent'st it back to me; Since when, it grows, and smells, I swear, GAUDEAMUS. AUDEAMUS igitur, Juvenes dum sumus; Nos habebit humus. Ubi sunt, qui ante nos In mundo fuere? Quos si vis videre. Vita nostra brevis est, Brevi finietur, Venit mors velociter, Rapit nos atrociter, Nemini parcetur. Vivat academia, Vivant professores, Vivat membrum quodlibet, Vivant membra quælibet, Semper sint in flore. |