1. School of our hearts, we will cherish thee still
With a great love which never shall fade,
Where’er we may roam, distant lowland and hill
O’er the ocean, through desert and glade,
As the long years wing on, each memory will hold
Happy scenes of the days in the past
Gladsome thought and remembrances purer than gold
With a vision which ever shall last.
2. School of our hearts, we will cherish thee still
For the blessing of laughter and fun,
For the innocent play time you gave us to fill,
Those swift moments of life just begun,
For the care as we followed from page unto page
And the guidance on life’s wound’rous road
As it led us through Childhood and Youth’s golden age
To’ the gates of Thy happy abode.
3. School of our hearts, we will cherish thee still
For the lesson of duty we learned,
For the courage to take up each cross with a will
And to stand for the right – not be turn’d
From the deadly affray where temptation is rife,
But to struggle and bravely endure,
Till the battle is won though the cost be our life
Grand tradition of lives gone before!
4. School of our hearts, we will cherish thee still
In the name of our comrade of old,
One who follow’d the Master through good and through ill
Out of weakness found strength to be bold
The School motto is ESSE QUAM VIDERI which means to be Rather than to Seem.
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