The School Song

Fiat Lux

Quiet and ordered hours,

Work and Leisure and Play;

Here are the budded powers

Growing to greet the day,

The World waits on our way,

And the gate swings slow apart,

And around us rises the stir of the fray,

- But it comes not into our heart.

Here we train for the future's race,

Here we look into learning's face,

Here we sit at her gracious feet,

Who steels our strength for the nearing fight,

When we arise with our arms complete,

We shall carry the Light, we shall carry the Light.

Life is a road to thread,

In dust and labour and heat;

But the light shines over our head,

And the thought of the goal is sweet.

What of the wary feet,

If the heart beat high to the end?

What if the Past have know defeat?

The future is ours to mend.

Here we measure the morrow's aim,

Here we kindle the morrow's flame,

Here we learn for the love of our land,

Handled and made for the service of right,

We shall lift our lamp with a loyal hand,

We shall carry the Light, we Shall carry the Light.

Music: Gerald Hudson

Words: Professor W. Dunlop

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The School Hymn

Hymn 303 Songs Of Praise

THOU whose almighty Word.
Chaos and darkness heard,
And took their flight:
Hear us, we humbly pray,
And where the Gospel-day
Sheds not its glorious ray
Let there be light!

THOU who didst come to bring
On thy redeeming wing
Healing and sight
Health to the sick in mind,
Sight to the inly blind
Ah! now to all mankind
Let there be light!

Spirit of truth and love,
Life-giving, holy Dove,
Speed forth thy flight!
Move on the waters' face,
Bearing the lamp of grace,
And in earth's darkest place
Let there be light!

Blessed and holy Three,
Glorious Trinity
Wisdom, love, might;
Boundless as ocean tide
Rolling in fullest pride,
Through the world far and wide
Let there be light!

J. Marriott 1780 - 1825

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