HYMN FOR BEGINNING OF TERM:

Rank by rank again we stand,
From the four winds gathered hither
Loud the hallowed walls demand
Whence we come, and how and whither?
From their stillness breaking clear,
Echoes wake to warn or cheer.
Higher truth and holier good
Call our mustered brotherhood.

Ours the years' memorial store,
Hero days and names we reckon;
Days of brethren gone before,
Lives that speak, and deeds that beckon.
One in name, in honour, one,
Guard we well the crown they won;
What they dreamed be ours to do,
Hope their hopes and seal them true.

Brother, if with lure unblest,
Tempter wise the past betray thee,
Rise once more to war addressed,
Fair the field, thy God to aid thee;
Lo! Once more the morn begins,
Scatters as the clouds thy sins;
Rise, and bid thy morrow slay
Shades or shames of yesterday.

Forward then to battle go,
Comrades sworn, one troth to render;
Life by fellow life upgrow,
Strong for war - for helping, tender:
Strong for war, whom Christ hath led,
Tender for whose weal he bled;
Pure, for mute above us moves
Wings of the Immortal Love.

HYMN FOR THE END OF TERM

O'er the harvest reaped or lost,
Falls the eve; our tasks are over.
Purpose crowned or purpose crossed,
None may mar and none recover.
Now, O Merciful and Just,
Trembling lay we down our trust:
Slender fruit of thriftless day,
Father, at Thy feet we lay.

Yea, but Thou, O Judge and Lord,
Yea, but Thou, O Strong and Holy,
Take, and in Thy bosom stored
By Thy pure hands changing wholly,
Turn to gold our things of nought,
Failing deed and failing thought:
Love, how faint, yet love we give;
Thou within us make it live.

Gracious task our heart shall bear
Now, for sweeter call hath found us,
Airs of home and days that were
Wind rewoven chains around us;
By the home from whence we came
Love shall trim her gentler flame,
Kindled new from undefiled
Ancient altars of the child.

Brothers, whom the wider life
Summons to a man's endeavour,
Bear our blessings through the strife,
Comrades once, and comrades ever.
Yours and ours one saving star,
Here and on your fields afar,
Lightens from beside the throne,
Where the one Lord makes us one.

[Author of both hymns not known]

A School Hymn by Charles Levy

Thanks to Charles Levy for this addition. 

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