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Carnival Capping Songs 1916

Revels

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Revels.

Now with reason for a season swat is quite abated,
While in joyous unison we hold our capping spree,
From the lab. and from the law school's archives antiquated,
Swats, Sports, Saints and Soldier Boys in camaraderie.

Sing:
Hi! Hi! Grads,
Ye we honour while we may
Factious fads,
Toil and woe are laid away,
Now's the time,
On our jolly Capping Day
Ere we give you our "good-night."

Though we're thrifty, there are fifty toasts we'd like to honour:
Our Professors and our messers on the Rugby field,
Students' Ass. and club committees, all the men who don a
Cap and gown, or pads or jersey, or who win a shield.

For you know
At our University
We can show
Quite a great diversity.
These we pledge
On our jolly Capping Day
Ere we give you our "good-night."

Many doings, many wooings we can all discern:
Men in khaki, much recruiting, Hudson's Rhody School,
Freshers' risings, Free Discussions, budding subalterns:
Or, alas! the fact that G.G. is not now at Coll.

Ho! boys Ho!
Give your voices to the theme;
We may crow
That our leaders are the cream.
Now's the time
On this jolly Capping Day,
Ere we give you our "good-night."

But the "game 'uns" who have got there are our choicest topic.
B.A.'s, M.A.'s, LL.B.'s, and other Bachelors.
Worthies of the bar and medicine fellows philosopic:
These we pledge with brimming beaker while our chorus roars, —

Hi! H! Grads,
Ye we honour while we may,
Factious fads,
Toil and woe are laid away.
Now's the time
On this jolly Capping Day,
Ere we give you our "good-night."