Meliora Sequamur - Ian Anderson

Meliora Sequamur - Ian Anderson
Mortarboard gown hood and lace come
Guide me in learning in ascension
Where minds may meet and twitters
Tweet in modern Latin in declension
O Domine O Magister we aspiring angels sing
With one tongue forever young
Let us follow better things
In saintly word and perfect grammar
To Academia's lofty space
The trivium quadrivium all baser
Thoughts now to efface
O Domine O Magister we aspiring angels sing
With one tongue forever young
Let us follow better things
Cruel Bunter bashing cane a thrashing
Lines detention soon forgot
O dark ploy This grammar school boy
Has paid the price and bought the lot
In the quiet hours of life's twilight
Old school ties and photographs
I call to mind the sore behind the
Tears the last and longest laughs
Empty desks and inkwells darkened
Chapels cobweb corridors silent now
Ghostly purple robes and dusty trencher
What could be holier than thou
O Domine O Magister we aspiring angels sing
With one tongue forever young
Let us follow better things
Meliora sequamur may we follow better things