Fiat Sapientia Virtus | Jadilah Kesatria Budiman

The Ode was sung to the tune composed by Anthony Burgess himself. It became the College song for a very short while, as JDR Howell the HM who was vehemently anti-Burgess didnot support its continuation beyond the few instances it was sung under the batonship of teacher Yusuf Tajuddin. Anyway the tune would perhaps not catch-on to Malay ears but the lyrics manifest adequately the objectives and aspirations of the College motto: Fiat Sapientia Virtus (=Let Manliness and Wisdom prevail), just describing an earnest sincere and plain hope and serious endeavour for MCKKians without making any claims to heroism and credit.That should be for others to decide and evaluate.
The Malay version is not a direct translation but an attempt at the translation (i.e. plus interpretation) of the spirit of the Ode to MCKK i.e. Fiat Sapientia Virtus.
Perhaps the Board of Governors, MCOBA, PTA and the College should choose to adopt it as the alternate anthem for MCKK. If it so does, I recommend that the song be sung to the tune of "Hidup Melayu" which was composed and sung when the Pekembar/UMNO flag was first unfurled by the late Sultan Badlishah of Kedah, on 27 07 1946 in front of the Francis Light School just before the Pekembar held its third Supreme Council meeting. That song was the 'new Malay National Anthem' as described by Hashim Sam Latiff that MCKK boys proudly sang when the Pekembar/UMNO flag was raised by the British headmaster on the Malay College main mast on Federation (of Malaya)Day, 01 02 1948, to replace the FMS and the Union Jack/Malayan Union flag.