The Spike or Victoria College Review Capping programme 1919

The Song of Victoria College

The Song of Victoria College

"O, I smell false Latin!"

Shakspeare.

Aedem colimus Minervae
Acti desiderio
Artes nosse liberals
Hoc in Hemispherio
Aedem colimus Musarum,
Sub Australi sidere;
Nos a Musis maria longa
Nequeunt dividere.

Corpus sanum ne sit absens
Properamus ludere
Subter iugum occupantes
Fauste pilam trudere
Oratores, Oratrices
Audias effundere
Voces dignas Cicerone
Et sellas pertundere.

Chorus:
Oh, Victoria, sempiterna
Sit tibe felicitas
Alma mater, peramata
Per aetates maneas.