Stonyhurst Chorus
Originally composed in 1894 to celebrate a century of happy settlement for the College in idyllic rural Lancashire, today, the Stonyhurst Chorus was sung each year following the Head of the Line's address at Rhetoric ball, which closed Great Academies. The first verse was sung by the Head chorister of the school and then the rest join in.
- Old Alma Mater, here's to thee!
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- Long life and all prosperity!
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- While generations come and go,
- While boyhood doth to manhood grow,
- Be aye the same we used to know,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- More bright be every coming year!
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- More proud each step of thy career!
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- And may thy sons that are to be
- More worthy service bring to thee,
- But not more loyal hearts than we,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
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- Thy sons in every land are known,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- In all they prove them for thine own,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- And borne across each distant main,
- From every continent our strain
- Shall come in echoes back again,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- Old college of the eagle towers,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst:
- Thy honour shall through life be ours,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- Fresh triumphs give us year by year
- Of study and of play to hear,
- And back to thee return the cheer,
- Stonyhurst! Old Stonyhurst!
- L.D.S.
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(Sung to the German melody 'Tannenbaum')