University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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University Song BY EX-CHANCELLOR ANDREWS (Tune: Tlie Old Oaken Bucket. ) Alma Mater, vc hail thee with loyal devotion. And bring to thy altar our offering of praise. Our hearts swell within us with joyful emotion As the name of Nebraska in chorus we raise. The happiest moments of youth ' s fleeting hours We ' ve passed ' neath the shade of these time-honored walls And sorrows as transient as April ' s brief showers Have clouded our lives in Nebraska ' s fair Iialls. And when we depart from thy friendly protection And boldly launch out upon life ' s stormy main, We ' 11 oft look behind us with grateful afifection And live our bright student days over again. When from youth we have wandered to manhood ' s high station. And hopeful young scions around us have grown, We ' 11 send tliem with love and with deep veneration As pilgrims to this, the best shrine we have known. And when life ' s golden Autumn with Winter is blending. And brows now so radiant are furrowed with care. When the blightings of age on our heads are descending. With no early friends all our sorrows to share. Ah, then as in memory backward we wander And roam the long vista of past years adown On tlie scenes of our student days often we ' 11 ponder, And smile to contemplate Nebraska ' s renown.