We lift our voices, let them ring.
With grateful gladness let us sing.
Joining with others far and near,
With old and young we gather here
To celebrate the gift they gave,
Our founders with their vision brave.


We sing of those who cared to sow
The plentiful harvest that we know,
Seeing above horizons then
A woman's life beyond their ken.
They strove for freedom of the mind,
A bright new world for womankind.


We hear their story: strong and few,
They worked and prayed and planned anew
Through many toils a dream to save;
A fuller life to us they gave.
We sing their praises; may we too
Abundantly live in all we do.


Living the dream and dreaming to share
With men our founders' vision rare,
Risking the storm while charting anew,
We journey toward this brighter view
As men and women, equal, give
Unique gifts of self that all may live.


So Wheaton's banner, raise it unfurled
To women and men throughout the world;
To the oppressed of ev'ry race
A word of hope, a gift of grace.
Not for ourselves our blessings be,
But all humankind, 'til all are free.






Words and music by Carlton T. Russell