The school song was written by Hubert Butler with considerable help from a 12 year old pupil. It first appeared in the School Magazine, volume 1 number 2, in December 1930 and was written during the Autumn term. It was set to the music Monk's Gate, which is best known as the hymn To be a Pilgrim by John Bunyan, 1684.
 Often when tireless waves
Hurl them together Into Tintagel's caves, 'Spite of the weather Knights of the Table Round On quests of Mercy bound Sing to the thunder's sound Laugh at the lightning. Danes over wold and fen
Britain encumber; Scarcely a thousand men Alfred can number, Yet shall the Wessex ground To their proud tramp resound, Drummed by the thunder's sound, Lit by the lightning. |
