College Song Book: A Collection of American College Songs : with Piano-forte Accompaniment

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H. Tolman and Company, 1860 - 72 páginas
 

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Página 21 - Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!' And loud that clarion voice replied. Excelsior! 'O stay,' the maiden said, 'and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Página 21 - There in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell, like...
Página 21 - The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior...
Página 6 - 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! To thy children the lesson still give, With freedom to think, and with patience...
Página 61 - Summon our band from the prairie land, From the granite hills, dark frowning, From the lakelet blue, and the black bayou, From the snows our pine peaks crowning ; And pour the song in joy along, For the hours are bright before us, And grand and hale are the...
Página 25 - Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur, venit mors velociter, rapit nos atrociter, nemini parcetur. 4. Vivat academia, vivant professores, vivat membrum quodlibet, vivant membra quaelibet, semper sint in flore.
Página 6 - From the home of our free-roving years, 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. " 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...
Página 16 - On the deck, or on the sod, In the still and early morning, 'T is the hour to worship God. " But don't you stop to pray in secret, No time for you to worship there, The hour approaches, ' Tempus fugit,' Tear your shirt or miss a prayer. Don't stop to wash, don't stop to button, Go the ways your fathers trod ; Leg it, put it, rush it, streak it, Run and worship God. " On the staircase, stamping, tramping, Bounding, sounding, down you go ; Jumping, bumping, crashing, smashing, Jarring, bruising, heel...
Página 61 - Gather ye smiles from the ocean isles, Warm hearts from river and fountain, A playful chime from the palm tree clime, From the land of rock and mountain ; And roll the song in waves along, For the hours are bright before us, And grand and hale are the elms of Yale, Like fathers, bending o'er us.
Página 19 - And who was on the Catalogue When college was begun? Two nephews of the President, And the Professor's son, (They turned a little Indian by, As brown as any bun); Lord! how the seniors knocked about The freshman class of one...

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