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Carnival Capping Songs 1916

Final Chorus

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Final Chorus.

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot."

Just one stave more and the song is done—
A stave for the olden time:
One age is past, and the age to come
Is the age of the golden prime.
So praise we men who have passed away
Who hold to a legend bold—
Whatever a sordid world may say,
Wisdom is more than gold.

Chorus.
So when we are singing of College,
Singing the song of old,
Think of the past,
Hold to the last,
That it's wisdom that's more than gold!

For this is the burden of the world
Which it speaketh day by day,
Though many a worldly lip be curled
With a sneer that it does not pay:
In our ears is the voice of a Mammon age,
In our hearts is a tale that's old,
The tale of our garnered heritage—
The Wisdom that's more than gold!