♪ Fair Harvard we join in they jubilee throng ♪
♪ And with blessings surrender the o'er ♪
♪ By these festival rites from the age that is past ♪
♪ To the age that is waiting before ♪
♪ O relic and type of our ancestors' worth ♪
♪ That has long kept their memory warm ♪
♪ First flower of the wilderness ♪
♪ Star of their night ♪
♪ Calm rising through change and through storm ♪
♪ Fair Harvard we join in thy jubilee throng ♪
♪ And with blessings surrender the o'er ♪
♪ By these festival rites from the age that is past ♪
♪ To the age that is waiting before ♪
♪ O relic and type of our ancestors' worth ♪
♪ That has long kept their memory warm ♪
♪ First flower of the wilderness ♪
♪ Star of their night ♪
♪ Calm rising through change and through storm ♪
(trumpet instrumental music)
♪ Farewell be thy destinies ♪
♪ Onward and bright ♪
♪ To thy children the lesson still give ♪
♪ With freedom to think ♪
♪ And with patience to bear ♪
♪ And for right ever bravely to live ♪
♪ Let not moss-covered error move thee at its side ♪
♪ As the world on truth's current glides by ♪
♪ Be the herald of light ♪
♪ And the bearer of love ♪
♪ Till the stars in the firmament die ♪