School Song
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Labor Omnia Vincit
Labor Omnia Vincit - Work conquers all.
Here we toil from 9 till 4,
Fields of science we explore,
Languages we learn to speak,
Learning slowly week by week,
Labor Omnia Vincit - Work conquers all.
How are battles won and lost,
What is retail, what is cost,
How are entire nations fed,
How is Shakespere's blank verse read?
Labor Omnia Vincit - Work conquers all.
Here will our purpose at length become plain,
What we should so with our lives for His gain,
How we should learn to face evil and lust,
And that only in God,
Only in God,
Should we put our whole trust.
There was an earlier school song, taught in the 1940s. A partial version goes:
A song, oh a song for the school, A workaday song with a lilt and a swing. . . . . . . When wisdom seemed worth it and honour was real, This, this is the song of the school.
Read more about this topic: Ilkeston Grammar School
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