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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Friday, 1st July, 1904.

The Song of Victoria College

The Song of Victoria College.

Aedem colimus Minerva
Acti desiderio
Artes nosse liberales
Hoc in Hemispherio.

Chorus.
O Victoria, sempiterna
Sit tibi felicitas;
Alma mater, peramata
Per aetates maneas.

Aedem colimus Musarum
Sub Australi sidere;
Nos a Musis maria longa
Nequeunt dividere.

Studiosi, studiosae
Captant sapientiam;
Circa venti turbulenti
Auferunt desidiam.

Omnium Collegiorum:
Surgit hoc novissimum:
Ergo vires iuveniles
Exhibent fortissimum.

Nomen quod profert, sodales
Fausto sit oraculo;
Ut Deus regno reginae
Faveat curriculo.

Per vias laboriosas
Doctrinarum omnium
Docti ducunt professores
Obsequens servitium

Carpus sanum ne sit absens
Properamus ludere
Subter iugum occupantes
Fuste pilant trudere.

Oratores, Oratrices
Audias effundere
Voces dignas Cicerone
Et sellas pertundere.

* * * *

[And two verses at foot of page I.]

"O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold!"—Othella