What Is There
Here we stand where our fathers standing
Thought the thoughts that are ours today;
Yielding their hearts to the School’s commanding,
Tuned their lives to accept her sway:
One with theirs is the prayer we pray-
One with theirs is our Hope, our Light-
One with theirs is the game we play-
One with theirs is our rule for right.
Still in the lore of her legend’s pages
Truth, like the quenchless star
Set for a sign for future ages
Shines on the years that are.
Here in the games that are ours for playing
Find we more that the moment’s prize-
Shoulder to shoulder our ranks arraying,
Face the future with fearless eyes,
Hence with doubting and vain surmise!
Standing firmly we front the foe;
Whatsoever the days devise,
Life shall call us and we will go.
Ay, and the lesson of this our chorus
Still we will bear in mind;
Draw for the light of the years before us,
Might from the years behind.
Here in the tasks that are ours for learning
Read we more than the pages bear-
Fan the flame in our spirit burning
Not to be less that our fathers were;
What they ventured we too would dare-
Whither they journeyed we set our face-
Long as The Lodge that had these in care,
Stand unmoved in her storied place.
Memory born of old days shall bind us
-Though we return no more-
Still shall the light of the years behind us
Brighten the years before.
William Wallace Cathcart Dunlop (1920) Professor of Classics at Codrington College
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