TITLE:
Mont Amoena Song/Poem, 1922

SUBJECT:
Document

DESCRIPTION:
Handwritten in pencil on lined paper.

CREATOR:
Unknown

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
1922

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT:
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE:
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION:
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

TRANSCRIPTION:

Looking backward o’er the pathway
Trod in earlier days,
Hand in hand with you, our comrades,
We’ve come now to parting ways.

Shall we leave you but a mem’ry?
Nay!Our ideals, too!
Golden milestones we’ve erected,
They’re all be far guides to you.

One’s for brave and earnest effort,
One’s for lives that give,
One’s for love and reverence’s footstool,
One’s for hearts that live.

One’s for hope, and one’s for friendship,
One’s for thoughtfulness,
One’s for love of home and country,
One’s for God and His goodness.

We’re not afraid to leave behind us
These our mem’ries bright,
Our successes and failures
May but help you toward the light.

Mont Amoena! Thou whose spirit
Hovers o’er us here!
Be our guide, our inspiration,
Be for all time near.

Keep ambition always burning,
May we faithful be,
Ever true our hearts we’re turning,
Mont Amoena! Unto thee!