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COLLEGE SONG.

COLLEGE SONG.

ALL hail to the College Beautiful!
All hail to the Wellesley blue!
All hail to the girls who are gathering pearls
From the shells that open to few!
From the shells upcast by the ebbing Past
On the shores where, faithful and true,
An earnest band, with the groping hand,
Are seeking the jewels from under the sand,
And spreading abroad through the breadth of the land
The name of the Wellesley blue.

chorus.

All hail to the College Beautiful!
All hail to the royal throne,
Whence, her heart within her burning,
Silver voiced, far-eyed Learning
Looks upon her own!

All hail to the College Beautiful!
All hail to the sacred walls,
Where, sinking away in shadowy gray,
Still the sun's last radiance falls!
Where first on the lake the day-beams awake,
And the Spring's white manacles break.