Province of Bedfordshire
Old Cedarians Lodge No 8078
Patron Lodge of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution
Grand Patron Lodge of the Masonic Samaritan Fund
Patron Lodge of the Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys
Words by Dr G H Fowler
Music by H O Hodgson FRCO
Patulae sub tegmine
Cedri laboramus.
Hilari nunc carmine
Scholam celebremus.
Volitans accipiter
Noster in sereno.
Monstrat nobis clariter
Viam sole pleno;
Altiora petimus
Volucrem sequentes,
Sordida reiicimus,
Retro haud videntes.
Scholae talis gloriam,
Nunquam minuamus;
Cedrum et accipitrem
Semper foveamus.
Floreat Lectona,
Floreat Lectona.
We work beneath the shades of the broad spreading cedars.
Let us now praise our School with joyful song.
Our Buzzard flying flying high shows us clearly a pathway lit by the splendour of the sun.
We seek the higher things following the bird, we cast aside the thing that is low, never looking backward.
Let us never lessen the glory of such a school.
Let us ever cherish the cedar and the buzzard.
May Leighton Flourish!
May Leighton Flourish!
The Cedar School Song, reproduced here in its original Latin text together with a translation, was traditionally learnt by pupils during their first term at the school. It was regularly sung at School Assemblies, until in recent years the School moved from its town centre site to its present location on Mentmore Road and the practise ended.
The Lodge members now sing the School Song at each meeting, sadly some of us are not as proficient in Latin as the School would have wished, but what we loose in our language abilities we make up for with our enthusiasm in singing.