“To Alma Mater”
Lampas, The Yearbook of the Teachers College of the City of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1929
When we came, Alma Mater, to thee, in our youth
When we lifted our eyes, full of trust, to thy face.
When we felt there thy spirit, and saw there thy grace.
We desired then thy wisdom, we longed for thy truth.
As the years have flown by with their toil and their joy.
Thou hast quickened our ears, thou hast opened our eyes,
Till the hill and the plain, till the seas and the skies,
Are all throbbing with beauty no hand can destroy.
Thou hast shown us the world with its splendour and might;
Its desire and its need thou hast given us to see;
Mother, grant us thy passion for service, that we
May lead youth with its ardor to seek for the light.