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Carmen Undeliense
- Quid quid puerorum est
- Hic literatorum,
- Quid quid magistrorum est,
- Carmen det Canorum;
- Alma mater floreat
- Tempus in aeternum;
- Tellus carmen resonat
- Et regnum supernum
- Floreat Latinitas,
- Literae Graecorum;
- Floreat divinitas,
- Usus calculorum.
- Floreat scientia,
- Omnes bone artes;
- Crescat et prudentia
- Undeli per partes
- Lusiones floreant
- Aut remis aut pilis;
- Pueri que gaudeant,
- Gaudeant in illis:
- Vindicent plus gloriae
- Ludi et labores;
- Praemi a victoriae
- Ferant digniores
- Laxtonis prudentia
- Ludum hic fundavit;
- Domini clementia
- Ad huc conservavit.
- Floreat Undelium,
- Hoc Deum oramus;
- Et per omne saeculum
- Idem concinamus
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Floreat Undelium
- Long ere the cruel marauders of many a Danish band
- Rowed up the broad Nene valley, and plundered the fertile land,
- Here in our town of Oundle, high over the river-side,
- Wilfred of York once rested, and founded a school, and died.
- Oundle, long may she flourish,
- Wax and grow in the land
- Go on her path down the ages
- Guided by God's good hand!
- The Light that he lit was tended, when struggled the tiny flame,
- By good Sir William Laxton (all honour to his name!)
- Through a Guild that is great in London, which took the gift in his will,
- To this giving toil and treasure, maintaining and tending still.
- Good is the fruit of its labours, the School as she stands to-day,
- Second to none in endeavour, whole-hearted in work and play;
- Ours be it, oldest to youngest, to strive with a loyal heart,
- Lest to the past rise and reproach us, when we in our turn depart.
- So like a tree of the forest may she flourish and spread and stand,
- Stretching her boughs to the heavens, her roots in the Motherland,
- And may the fruit of her branches be men with an upright heart,
- Dauntless and pure, well fitted to play their appointed part.
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