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The Spike Golden Jubilee Number May 1949

Song of Victoria College

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Song of Victoria College

Tune: "Clementine."

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

Chorus

O Victoria, sempiterna
Sit tibi felicita
Alma mater, peramata,
Per aetates maneas.

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

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

Omnium Collegiorum
Surgit hoc novissimum:
Ergo v ires 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.

Corpus sanum ne sit absens
Properamus ludere
Subter iugum occupants
Fuste pilam trudere,

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

J. Rankine Brown