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[sadie_cocopuff]

for your reading pleasure, i would like to share with you the words to the amazingly cheesy hymn we sang at baccalaureate today (twice, because the choir has to attend both services - sitting through the president's speech twice was torture). anyway, it goes to the tune of jupiter from holst's planets (amazing music):

For the splendor of creation that draws us to inquire,
for the mysteries of knowledge to which our hearts aspire,
for the deep and subtle beauties which delight the eye and ear,
for the discipline of logic, the struggle to be clear,
for the unexplained remainder, the puzzling and the odd:
for the joy and pain of learning, we give you thanks, O God.

For the scholars past and present whose bounty we digest,
for the teachers who inspire us to summon forth our best,
for our rivals and companions, sometimes foolish, sometimes wise,
for the human web upholding this noble enterprise,
for the common life that binds us through days that soar or plod:
for this place and for these people, we give you thanks, O God.

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[nadia-skye.livejournal.com]

...though why anyone would feel the urge to add ANYTHING, much less words, to Jupiter is beyond me.

[sadie_cocopuff]

i liked the hymn they sang to the same tune in "another country". it was very british.