"Philosophiae Doctores"
lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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After the Dark Age
Turning a new page
Gather together the time-tattered fragments
of ancient lore

The pages are rotten
The tongues are forgotten
Still honor demands that our age understand
those who came before

Let us teach once more

Teachers and students
Folly and prudence
Folly to claim we can waken a flame
that had long grown cool

Prudence is vital
Teach our disciples
Entrust to their hands the distiction that stands
between sage and fool

Call them back to school

Through history reaching
We are still teaching
To honor the next generation of teachers
so gather we

Your toil and tuition
Now come to fruition
So robed and belaureled as teachers of lovers
of wisdom be

Doctors of philosophy

P. H. D.!