School Song
The Queen's College School Song was composed in 1919 by His Excellency Sir Wilfred Colet, KCMG. The lyrics were penned by His Excellency The Hon. C. Clementi, CMG. The first and last verses of the school song are sung at all official assemblies in Latin. It is usually sung with piano accompaniment at school assemblies. The Latin lyrics link all students - both past and present.
Digitised by Tonia Pyle
Latin
Laude gratemur scholaeNostrae conditores:
Disce, nam iubent, ludo
Et labore mores.
Corpus sic tibi sanum
Sana mens servabit.
Reginae Collegium
Sic honor ditabit!
Divae nos Victoriae
In fide vivamus:
Nutricem Britanniam
Rite diligamus!
Sic nos patriae virtus
Discentes fovebit:
Reginae Collegium
Sic du florebit.
Scire nos monet vitam
Disciplina patrum:
Splendide mori docent
Nos exempla fratrum.
Lux Dei discentium
Corda illuminato!
Reginae Collegium
Ista laus ornato!
English
Praise and thank we godly men
Who, at our foundation,
Did decree that work and play
Should be our salvation;
Strive must we with hand and brain
Ne'er the twain dissever-
Wooing wisdom cheerily-
QUEEN'S, QUEEN'S, FOR EVER!
Sacred text and hold theme
(Jesu! To Thy glory!)
Ancient lore and names of might,
Wealth of word and story,
Great deeds shared from age to age,
Courage failing never.
Link us, Britian, long to thee-
QUEEN'S, QUEEN'S, FOR EVER!
Ruthless war on blood-soaked fields
Claimed, afar, our brothers;
Shrieking shell and creeping cloud
Saw them die for others:
Ours the guerdon and the crown
Of their high endeavour-
Dead, they held our lives in fee-
QUEEN'S, QUEEN'S, FOR EVER!