1. ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR
Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea:
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history's page let every stage
Advance Australia fair,
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia fair.
2. Beneath our radiant Southern Cross,
We'll toil with hearts and hands,
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands,
For those who've come across the seas
We've boundless plains to share,
With courage let us all combine
To advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia fair.
3. Abide with me
1. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.
2. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see—
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
3. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies;
Heav’n’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
4. School Song
1. Eighty years have now passed by her,
In God’s sight beneath the sun.
It’s a grand old place Knox Grammar School
Alma mater number one.
2. Though the years pass by her slowly
Our young men through her run.
I reflect with head bowed lowly.
On the days I was her son
5. Chorus
“Virile Agitur” the fight is
Lost or fairly won.
Vanquished or conqueror
“the manly thing is being done”
Whether win or lose
We’re the black and blues
“Virile Agitur”, “Virile Agitur”
3. After all the shout and clamour
When the school boys days are through,
There’ll always be Knox Grammar School
The triumphant black and blue.
There’ll always be Knox Grammar School
The triumphant black and blue.
“Virile Agitur”, “Virile Agitur”