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The Spike or Victoria College Review Capping programme 1919

Pro Sparta

Pro Sparta.

"The mountain nymph, sweet liberty."

Milton.

O land of the brave, O thou home of the free!
Who hast given to thy sone of the freeman's own power,
In the moment of danger, O how could it be,
We withhold from thy help what is Liberty's dower!
O thou spirit of Freedom! Thou well give mayest call—
In thy need while we live we will give thee our all!

Tell it out on the winds that while Sparta survives,
Her sons to thy service surrender their lives.

From the mist of the past, from the glory of old,
Call the spirit of valour of freedom's won giving;
Call our fathers to life, and as history unfold,
Let the forms of the d ead swell the host of the living;
In the blaze of their glory, the glow of that light,
Let us lay on the altar our lives in their sight!

Oh, thou spirit of Freedom! While Sparta survives
Her sons to thy service surrender their lives.