{"id":3988,"date":"2021-11-12T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:56:31","slug":"hail-all-hail-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/hail-all-hail-cornell\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail, All Hail, Cornell!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\">University\u2019s \u2018Alma Mater\u2019 has tunefully connected Cornellians for a century and a half<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Joe Wilensky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Robert Shapiro \u201904 first heard the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/music.library.cornell.edu\/alma-mater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alma Mater<\/a>\u201d played by the Cornell Chimes after he arrived on the Hill as an undergrad. But the song didn\u2019t take on a particular resonance until his junior year, when he was majoring in music and joined the Glee Club, singing the bass line nearly every week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat same semester, I got season hockey tickets, and what struck me is how versatile the \u2018Alma Mater\u2019 was,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt could be sung lyrically at Sage Chapel\u2014and raucously at Lynah Rink.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: First audio recording of Cornell\u2019s &quot;Alma Mater,&quot; 1914\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pH0R5DyyQCI?feature=oembed&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Red anthem is sung at nearly every official University event. It\u2019s a staple in the Glee Club and Chorus repertoire; has brought alumni together for decades in swaying harmony at Reunion and around the world; is played at halftimes and between periods at sports events by the Big Red Pep Band and others; and concludes every midday Cornell Chimes concert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song\u2014which dates back a century and a half, to just a couple of years after classes began on the Hill\u2014is identified with Cornell as closely as McGraw Tower or the Ezra Cornell statue. Its lyrics contain several iconic Big Red phrases, including \u201cFar above Cayuga\u2019s waters,\u201d \u201clift the chorus,\u201d and \u201cglorious to view.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The song is likely the most famous alma mater in America, and it continues to bind Cornellians across the generations and miles.<\/p><cite><strong>Michael Slon \u201992<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Cornell was the first university to use the tune\u2014adapted from a popular 19th-century ballad\u2014for its alma mater. (The term, Latin for \u201cbountiful mother\u201d or \u201cnourishing mother,\u201d can mean both the institution from which one has graduated and that school\u2019s song.) Cornell\u2019s has been sung as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/article\/cornell-global-alma-mater-choir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual global Sesquicentennial<\/a> celebration, played on kazoos at the Sy Katz \u201931 Parade in NYC, parodied, and even reimagined in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2007\/05\/cornells-alma-mater-goes-hip-hop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hip-hop<\/a> version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe song is likely the most famous alma mater in America, and it continues to bind Cornellians across the generations and miles,\u201d says Michael Slon \u201992, a professor and the director of choral music at the University of Virginia who authored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gleeclub.com\/store\/5flr2k9d39t2jaia2ty6ttvvh9ppzr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Songs From the Hill<\/em><\/a>, a history of the Cornell Glee Club. \u201cAs a scholar of this music, you find there are a lot of similarities between school songs, including the themes and the sources for tunes. But there is something absolutely unique and powerful when it\u2019s <em>your<\/em> alma mater.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Alumni sing together in Bailey Hall during Reunion 2016\u2019s Cornelliana Night\" class=\"wp-image-3987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/UP_2016_0752_138-296x166.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Students and alumni sing together in Bailey Hall during Reunion 2016\u2019s Cornelliana Night. <em>(Photo: Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Origins in roommates\u2019 duets<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of the \u201cAlma Mater\u201d begins in 1870 with two undergrads: Archibald Weeks 1872\u2014a bass singer and a clarinetist in the University orchestra\u2014and Wilmot Smith 1874, a tenor. They often sang duets in their shared room on North Tioga Street; one of the most popular songs in the country at the time was \u201cAnnie Lisle,\u201d a mournful ballad composed in 1857 by H.S. Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks was also a skater and oarsman who spent a lot of time on Cayuga Lake and the inlet, \u201cfrom which the University buildings could be plainly seen outlined against the sky,\u201d he recalled late in life. He described how, with the \u201cAnnie Lisle\u201d melody in his head, \u201cthe view of the college buildings as I frequented the lake suggested the words \u2018far above Cayuga\u2019s waters.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The view of the college buildings as I frequented the lake suggested the words \u2018far above Cayuga\u2019s waters.\u2019<\/p><cite><strong>Archibald Weeks 1872<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to the University librarian, Weeks described how he and Smith wrote the \u201cAlma Mater\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe blending of our voice\u2014he tenor, I, bass\u2014pleased us exceedingly in the music of \u2018Annie Lisle.\u2019 I proposed that we adapt a college song to the music and suggested the first two lines of the first verse; he responded with the third and fourth, I with the fifth and sixth, and he with the seventh and eighth. The chorus was the result of mutual suggestion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song\u2019s popularity among students quickly grew. Tweaks to three lines of the lyrics (including replacing \u201cever free and true\u201d with \u201cglorious to view\u201d) were likely made a few years later by Colin Urquhart 1876; changes in the structure\u2014such as moving the chorus up into the middle of what was the first verse, splitting it into two verses, and then repeating the chorus\u2014also occurred prior to 1900. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma_Mater_1913_record_label_provided-A-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"78 rpm record and label of 1914 recording of the Cornell Alma Mater\" class=\"wp-image-3984 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma_Mater_1913_record_label_provided-A-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma_Mater_1913_record_label_provided-A-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma_Mater_1913_record_label_provided-A-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma_Mater_1913_record_label_provided-A-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma_Mater_1913_record_label_provided-A-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma_Mater_1913_record_label_provided-A.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The first-ever recording of Cornell\u2019s \u201cAlma Mater.\u201d <em>(Photo: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>As early as 1876, Cornell\u2019s \u201cAlma Mater\u201d shows up in official compendia, such as <em>Carmina Collegensia: A Complete Collection of the Songs of the American Colleges<\/em>, and appears as part of the University\u2019s official canon (in <em>Songs of Cornell<\/em>) since at least 1900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first known recording was made by the Glee Club in January 1914 at the Columbia Phonograph Company in New York City; it was sold on a 10-inch, 78 rpm record with the song <em>Cornell<\/em> on the B side.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In pop culture, and through generations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While Cornell was the first to use an adaptation of \u201cAnnie Lisle\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Far_Above_Cayuga%27s_Waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for its alma mater<\/a>, high schools and universities around the world\u2014including those in Indiana, Missouri, Georgia, North Carolina, and even Beirut\u2014have since followed suit, employing their own lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma-Mater-origin-9A-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"album cover of a recording of &quot;Annie Lisle&quot; by the Cornell Glee Club\" class=\"wp-image-3986 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma-Mater-origin-9A-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma-Mater-origin-9A-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma-Mater-origin-9A-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma-Mater-origin-9A-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma-Mater-origin-9A-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Alma-Mater-origin-9A.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Glee Club also recorded a version of the original \u201cAnnie Lisle.\u201d <em>(Photo: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The<em> <\/em>song<em> <\/em>occasionally shows up in pop culture. The Cornell version is sung in the 1953 film<em> Titanic<\/em>, in an episode of Marvel\u2019s \u201cAgent Carter,\u201d and in two episodes of \u201cThe Office,\u201d including Andy Bernard\u2019s audition for \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next A Capella Sensation.\u201d The tune (sans Big Red lyrics) is the school song of the fictional Anarene High in <em>The Last Picture Show<\/em> and of P.S. 118 in \u201cHey Arnold!\u201d; it\u2019s the farewell anthem sung at Kellerman\u2019s Resort in <em>Dirty Dancing<\/em> (\u201cKellerman\u2019s we come together, singing all as one \/ We have shared another season\u2019s talent, play, and fun\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For thousands of Cornellians, of course, the quintessential<em> <\/em>Big Red song represents a lifelong connection to the University, serves as a vessel for Cornell spirit, and continues to echo through subsequent generations. Shapiro, for one, sang it \u201cas a lullaby to my daughter when she was a newborn, along with the \u2018Evening Song.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current chimesmaster Jenna Mertz \u201923 recalls first hearing the \u201cAlma Mater\u201d during Orientation Week, when she climbed McGraw Tower to watch a concert. \u201cI was amazed by how difficult it looked and how skillfully they performed it,\u201d she says. \u201cAt the time, the song was just a song, and Cornell was just school. As I\u2019ve progressed through my time here, Cornell has become my home, and the \u2018Alma Mater\u2019 has become an embodiment of the sense of family I feel here. It connects me to Cornell in a way that nothing else does.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The original \u2018Alma Mater\u2019 verse and chorus by Weeks and Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-default is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Far above Cayuga\u2019s waters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>With its waves of blue,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Stands our noble Alma Mater,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Ever free and true.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Far above the distant humming<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Of the busy town,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Reared against the arch of Heaven,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Looks she proudly down.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\">Chorus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Ever rolling, surging onward,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Glad her praises tell,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hail, to thee, Cornell.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The full version contains six verses\u2014but for the past 125 years, traditionally only the first has been sung, split into two verses that alternate with the repeated chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeks himself expressed surprise years later that \u201cthe first verse, which had been floating around from mouth to mouth,\u201d had been split into two and performed as the full song, \u201cas it was only introductory in the way of locating the subject and there was no termination or proper ending or climax to it whatsoever.\u201d He did ultimately revise the remaining verses (see below) for a preface to the first edition of the <em>Songs of Cornell<\/em>, published in 1900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe last verse is intended as a toast,\u201d Weeks noted in a 1917 note to the <em>Cornell Era<\/em>, \u201cand can be sung accompanied by any appropriate action.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Cornell's &quot;Alma Mater&quot; as it appears in an early copy of the book Cornell Songs.\" class=\"wp-image-3981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/2021_1254_NH_012-296x166.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Cornell\u2019s \u201cAlma Mater\u201d as it appears in an early copy of <em>Cornell Songs<\/em>. <em>(Photo: Cornell University)<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Cornell \u2018Alma Mater\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\"><strong>Verse one<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Far above Cayuga\u2019s waters,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>With its waves of blue,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Stands our noble Alma Mater,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Glorious to view.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\"><strong>Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Lift the chorus, speed it onward,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Loud her praises tell;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Hail to thee, our Alma Mater!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hail, all hail, Cornell!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\"><strong>Verse two<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Far above the busy humming<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Of the bustling town,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Reared against the arch of heaven,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Looks she proudly down.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(Chorus repeats)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the verses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\"><strong>Verse three<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Sentry-like o\u2019er lake and valley,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Towers her regal form,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Watch and ward forever keeping,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Braving time and storm.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>So through clouds of doubt and darkness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Gleams her beacon light,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Fault and error clear revealing,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blazing forth the right.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\"><strong>Verse four<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>To the glory of her founder<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Rise her stately walls;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>May her sons pay equal tribute<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Where\u2019er duty calls.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>When the moments swiftly fleeting,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Ages roll between,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>Many yet unborn shall hail her<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Alma Mater, Queen!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-quarter\"><strong>Verse five<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>In the music of the waters,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>As they glide along,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rkv-gutter-bottom-none\"><em>In the murmur of the breezes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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