Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: IV. Youth | | Gaudeamus Igitur | | From the Medieval Latin |
| | Translated by John Addington Symonds |
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LET us live, then, and be glad | |
| While young life ’s before us! | |
| After youthful pastime had, | |
| After old age hard and sad, | |
| Earth will slumber o’er us. | 5 |
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| Where are they who in this world, | |
| Ere we kept, were keeping? | |
| Go ye to the gods above; | |
| Go to hell; inquire thereof: | |
| They are not: they ’re sleeping. | 10 |
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| Brief is life, and brevity | |
| Briefly shall be ended: | |
| Death comes like a whirlwind strong, | |
| Bears us with his blast along; | |
| None shall be defended. | 15 |
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| Live this university, | |
| Men that learning nourish! | |
| Live each member of the same, | |
| Long live all that bear its name; | |
| Let them ever flourish! | 20 |
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| Live the commonwealth also, | |
| And the men that guide it! | |
| Live our town in strength and health, | |
| Founders, patrons, by whose wealth | |
| We are here provided! | 25 |
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| Live all girls! A health to you, | |
| Melting maids and beauteous! | |
| Like the wives and women too, | |
| Gentle, loving, tender, true, | |
| Good, industrious, duteous! | 30 |
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| Perish cares that pule and pine! | |
| Perish envious blamers! | |
| Die the Devil, thine and mine! | |
| Die the starch-neck Philistine! | |
| Scoffers and defamers! | 35 | | |
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