College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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- 55 Ojc Colonial iCfljo, 1921 p What great alumni thronged this spot! Monroe, Page, Marshall, Tucker, Roane, |j Rives, Tyler, Randolph, Taylor, Scott, Leigh, Gilmer, Tazewell, Jefferson, Who urged his hopeless plea of love To fair Belinda of the Grove. I For, radiant as summer skies, The loveliest maidens here abound ; } I To sweethearts then and witching eyes § We ' ll make the very heavens resound W ith Rah! Rah! Ree! W. M. C. 1693. J Turn not alone to days of yore, I But may our younger brethren aim J , To lead in hall and field once more, And light anew this shrine with Fame, As when our powdered fathers met g. And danced the stately minuet. And when irginia calls her roll |j Of mighty sons on storied page, I Our brothers ' names upon the scroll Shall blaze like stars from age to age! I So I Rah! Rah! Ree! I W. M. C. I 1693. I I M Page 5

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i ' iSiL«!iUJ!jyS ' i. . ' ijjfe j j fegiMiyM.yJlMi- ' CljC CoIOUitll BtiiO, 1921 ' A ' - Md l Mymi MMi iMMM ti n In times long past, on English soil, Reigned William great and Mary good, And, spite of foreign wars ' turmoil. And civil strife and scenes of blood, They ' stablished in the virgin west This school we love of all the best. Then to our royal founders ' names In Orange wreathed and York ' s pure white, We ' ll raise our song in glad acclaim And break the stillness of the night With Rah! Rah! Ree! W. M. C. 1693. Right doughty men were Parson Blair (Priest, pioneer, first president) And his successors in the chair. With mind and heart devoutly bent To make young Indians ideas shoot And spare the white man ' s scalp hirsute. But when these seek their native haunts, With keener zest the scalp they take: And student braves in frenzied dance Around their victim at the stake Whoop Rah! Rah! Ree! W. M. C. 1693. Page 4

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