I am submitting to you, for approval by the students, “Under ‘neath Maroon and Gold.” This was written to answer the numerous requests I have received for words suitable for a college song.
Music for this poem is in the hands of the college orchestra leader, and will be furnished if these words meet with the approval of the students.
Yours very truly,
Sion M. Lynam, ‘24
(Maroon and Gold is printing the words handed in by Mr. Lynam for the approval of the students. While the song is not a snappy one, such as some few schools have for athletic events, it is a beautiful song, expressing in language which belongs only to the poet, the beautiful sentiment of our college, and will, we believe live in the hearts and minds of Elon’s sons and daughters as the expression of their love for their college and classmates.)
UNDER ‘NEATH MAROON AND GOLD
Never college gave to mankind
Fairer women, braver men;
Never did their hearts beat truer
Than did hearts of Elon, when
On the field for college glory
Fellows that are clean and bold
Give their best and fight their hardest
Under ‘neath Maroon and Gold.
Through the four long years of college,
Through the brighter, darker days,
Men and women work together
Learning each some gentler ways--
Learning too, of love’s best meaning,
As the years of life unfold,
Till, perchance, two lives be blended
Under ‘neath Maroon and Gold.
When the snows of many winters
Leave their whiteness in our hair,
We will sit and talk together--
And she’ll be so young and fair
To the eyes that learned to love her
In the days then growing old,
That we’ll whisper, “Lo! I found you
Under ‘neath Maroon and Gold.”
--Sion M. Lynam
From the editorial page of Maroon and Gold, Elon College, N.C., Sept. 30, 1921. Sion Lynam was a poet and a minister. To read his obituary and read another of his poems, see Rev Sion Milton Lynam (1898-1989) - Find A Grave Memorial.
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