New Zealand Verse/Victoria College

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LXIII.

Victoria College.

Thou shalt be greater than the city that liesBeneath thee, though the wave curve tender foamAthwart her beach, thou hast a fairer homeWhere mountains watch thee with eternal eyes.Within thy sanctuary men shall prizeThe charm of Greece, the majesty of Rome,And Science through thy starry-circled domeShall trail her robe of unimagined dyes.As thou hast gathered round thee all that broodOf sacrifice for knowledge, who foreseeRegeneration, humbleness, and faithWon through the yoke of Pallas, thou shalt beMemory for those that build thy walls when deathHad given them else forgotten solitude.

Hubert Church.

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