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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday and Friday, June 24th and 25th, 1909

Leaving Salamanca

Leaving Salamanca.

Air: "Off to Philadelphia.
Farewell you halls and portals,
And your learned jokes and chortles,
And youth and grace this ancient place adorning;
For I'm getting old and stout,
And I'm gently swimming out
Of life's stream at Salamanca, in the morning.

Chorus.
Fare you well then, O my College,
Pert and saucy on your knoll-edge,
As though the world below you you were scorning;
Vast and many are the changes
Since I climbed the high School Ranges
On my way to Salamanca in the morning.

In those glorious times of yore,
(That's a phrase you've heard before),
When the days of gloomy Knights were not yet dawning;
Then we didn't see much vulgar
In a night-school,—and a Bulgar
Often came to Salamanca in the morning.

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Chorus.
Fare you well then, Alma Mater,
For Humanity you cater,
On Power, Rank and Mammon never fawning:
Men may come and men may sever,
But your Brook goes on for ever
O'er the floors of Salamanca in the morning.

And since now I'm going to take my staff
And wander, let the fatted calf
For farewell spread be slaughtered without warning,
And let Mrs. Brook's prize Leghorn
Fry and frizzle; and let Cleghorn
Write an Ode on my departure in the morning.

Chorus.
Fare you well Lieutenant Rawdon
With your little tinsel sword on,
For between us great's the gap that will be yawning,
And you'll sound upon your bugle
"The Retreat" for A. MacDougall,
He and I leave Salamanca in the morning.

Fare you well once more my lady friends,
For here perforce my story ends;
For I've got no further rhymes for your adorning;
Girls demure and girls that ogle
Keep your smiles for Archie Bogle
When I've gone from Salamanca in the morning.

Chorus.
As adown the Bay I'm speeding
I shall watch your form receding
Mater nostra, as I stand beneath the awning;
And the rising sun will shed its
Light on you and Prof. von. Zedlitz
As I'm leaving Salamanca in the morning.

"Hasbein."

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