Raffles Girls' School (Secondary)

School song

Sisters in Learning and Sisters at Heart

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From High Olympus flows to us the glory

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On us the sacred fire descends.

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Rise, sisters, rise, the world is all before ye

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Fear not to grasp what fortune sends.

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Chorus:

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Sisters in learning and sisters at heart

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Life lies before us,

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Here's luck to the start.

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A little while the sun shines high above us

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And youth's elixir fills our veins.

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The magic fire, that moves the gods to love us

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The fire by which the will attains.

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Repeat Chorus once

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So heart to heart we'll scale the heights of learning

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No mean desires our days shall shame.

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Whole-hearted, true, with pride and ardour burning

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On sisters, on to life and fame.

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Repeat Chorus once

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Recording of RGS School Song

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The school song was not composed specially for the school, but was chosen out of a songbook by the first principal, Miss Nelson. It was officially adopted as the school song in 1954. It was originally titled "From High Olympus".

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