Listening to Our School Anthem

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    School Anthem

    Our Alma Mater’s praise and glory
    Heart and voice today proclaim
    Our fervid songs recount her story
    Gampaha’s verdant vales acclaim
    Braving every storm and strife
    Lo she bears the palm of life
    Surge and blast though heave & toss
    Her’s is victory through the Cross
    With love a Mother’s hand is guiding
    Lest our careless childhood strays
    The Lilies fair to bloom she’s tending
    Training us to virtue’s ways
    Purity and grace her lore
    Work and will her wisdom’s cove
    Neath the Cross our banner might
    Strive for virtue’s lofty height
    Awake, arise ye Lanka’s daughters
    Weave her crown with homes the best
    As peerless as the sunkissed breakers
    Girding India’s pearl the best
    Gather then around the Cross
    Hold aloft the Holy Cross
    Through the Cross to endless light
    Through the Cross to realmse’er bright

    Lyrics by:
    Most Reverend Edmond Peiris, (Retired Archbishop of Chilaw)
    Music by :