Manual Arts High School ALMA MATER Click here to listen to melody   By Ralph Cleveland Set to music by John Abbott in 1921   The splendor of the rising day   In purple glory falls, And bathes in liquid flaming fire   Thy opalescent walls.   All hail, our Alma Mater dear,   The purple and the gray; All hail, our Alma Mater dear,   Forever and a day.   At eve the golden sunshine melts,   One last - one fond caress; Then, sad to lose the sight of thee,   The slow sun sinks to rest.   O Manual, all our voices rise   In tribute to thy fame; O Manual, may we ever bring   But honor to thy name!