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The lyrics to the song were written by Herbert Fisher Moore, an 1898 graduate of the school,[1][2] and are sung to the tune "Lancashire" (also known as "Lead On, O King Eternal")[3] by Henry Smart.

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[6] In October 1903, the College Monthly published a "College Song" sung to "Fair Harvard", with New Hampshire-oriented lyrics—the opening line was "New Hampshire, thy sons and thy daughters return".

Under the title "New Hampshire Hymn", the words were included in the inaugural (1909) edition of The Granite, the school's college yearbook, published in May 1908.

[a] We love thee, old New Hampshire, And to the White and Blue, Where'er our work shall call us, We always will be true.