While others may talk and preach a good game
There`s only one fraternity that lives up to its name;
Manly deeds, scholarship, and love for all mankind,
Respect for womanhood, her body and her mind!!
It`s not hard to guess which fraternity it is
That to each of its principles all members must live;
Many have tried to Kopy its brotherhood, its greatness, and love
But the original, the 1 - 9 - 0 - 6, will always stand above;
A Devil can`t be a captain, a master, - a dog will always possess
But an Alphaman will ALWAYS be the leader and nothing less.
It`s not about being pretty, although the ladies do love our style
It`s not about ignorance, though we know how to get wild;
The meaning, the richness you will never know
Unless the sands you cross, are BURNING LIKE SNOW;
No matter how hard you try,
there will always, one original be.
No matter how hard you lie, everyone will very clearly see;
ALPHA PHI ALPHA's the father of the male Pan-Hellenic
The rest are just around because we let you in it;
We needed somewhere to send those notworthyof the light
But were still men, at least in their own right;
So to Kappa, Sigma, Que, and Iota... WHO?, oh,
onward they still go
Their sands may be burning,
but the Iciness of the snow,
they`ll never know.
Invictus
William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
The Test of a Man
Walter D. Wintle
The test of a man is the fight that he makes
the grit that he daily shows
The way he stands upon his feet and takes
life's numerous bumps and blows
A coward can smile when there's naught to fear
and noting his progress bars
But it takes a man to stand and cheer,
while the other fellow stars
It isn't the victory after all
but the fight that a brother makes
A man when driven against the wall,
still stands erect and takes
The blows of fate with his head held high,
,bleeding, and bruised and pale
Is the man who will win and fate defied
for he isn't afraid to fail
House of Alpha
Brother Sydney P. Brown
Goodwill is the monarch of this house. Men, unacquainted, enter, shake hands,
exchange greetings and depart friends. Cordiality exists among all who abide within.
I am the eminent expression of friendship. Character and temperament change
under my dominant power. Lives once touched by me become tuned and are thereafter amiable, kindly, fraternal.
I inspire the musician to play noble sentiments and assist the chemist to
convert ungenerous personalities into individuals of great worth. I destroy
all ignoble impulses. I constantly invoke principles which make for
common brotherhood and the echo resounds in all communities and princely men are thereby recognized.
Education, health, music, encouragement,
sympathy, laughter - all these are species of interest given on self-invested capital.
Tired moments find me a delightful treat, hours of sorrow, a shrine of
understanding at all times, I am faithful the creed of companionship.
To a few, I am the castle of dreams-ambitious, successful, hopeful dreams. To
many, I am the poetic palace where human feeling is rhymed to celestial
motives; to the great majority, I am the treasury of good fellowship.
In fact, I am the college of friendship; the university of brotherly love; the
school for the better making of men
I am Alpha Phi Alpha
The Man Who, Thinks He Can
If you think your beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you?d like to win but think you can't
Its almost a cinch you won't
If you think you'll lose, you've lost.
For out in this world you'll find
Success begins with with a fellows will;
It's all in the state of mind
If you think you're outclassed, you are:
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure in yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battle always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
is the one who thins he can.
