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The History Of Gyges's Ring,
THE HISTORY OF GYGES ' s RING ,
BEING A PRELUDE TO THE SECRETS OP MASONRY . ADDRESSED TO THE LADIES .
JL / ADIES , you may have heard of GYGEs ' Ring , Of which Historians write , and Poets sing ; Form'd by a Lydian Sage , with potent spell : This Ring , it ' s wearer made invisible . After his death , it often chang'd it ' s master , At length fatedestin'd it , to Zoroaster :
By his successors carefully possessed ; Long did the Magi flourish in the East . 'Till Amman ' s son with Thais thither came , And fired Pcrsepotis to please the dame . Beneath it's ruins long the treasure lay , 'Till by an Arab robber brought to day ; Unconscious of the prizehe trudg'd along
, , And sold it to a Bramin , — -for a-song . Thence in Bengal , thro' various hands it pass'd , Next , to a kinsman of my own at last . He dying , gave it me , it's virtues rare Unfolded , and soon felt a joj'ful ' heir . To pass where-e ' er I pleas'd , unseen and free , O ! what a feast for CURIOSITY !
No more shall Masonry , X cry'd , ' conceal It's mysteries , all it's secrets I ' 11 reveal . No more the fair shall-languish , I'll explain , What they all wish to know , but wish in Vain , I said , and ciap'd the ring upon my finger , Away I went in haste , I did not linger . At a fat brother ' s back , close as his shade ,
I followed , and with him my entry made . The brethren all were met , a social board , I saw unterrified , the guardian sword . I saw ! I saw I and now your ears prepare , For what I saw , I 'II publicly declare . Clear'd was each mental eye , I saw each grace , And each protecting genius of the place .
FRIENDSHIP on wing ^ Etherial , flying round , Stretch'd out her arms and bless'd the hallow'd "round HUMANITY well pleas'd , there took her stand , ° Holding her daughter PITY in her hand ; And CHARITY , which soothes the widow's sigh , And wipes the dew drop from the orphan ' s eye ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The History Of Gyges's Ring,
THE HISTORY OF GYGES ' s RING ,
BEING A PRELUDE TO THE SECRETS OP MASONRY . ADDRESSED TO THE LADIES .
JL / ADIES , you may have heard of GYGEs ' Ring , Of which Historians write , and Poets sing ; Form'd by a Lydian Sage , with potent spell : This Ring , it ' s wearer made invisible . After his death , it often chang'd it ' s master , At length fatedestin'd it , to Zoroaster :
By his successors carefully possessed ; Long did the Magi flourish in the East . 'Till Amman ' s son with Thais thither came , And fired Pcrsepotis to please the dame . Beneath it's ruins long the treasure lay , 'Till by an Arab robber brought to day ; Unconscious of the prizehe trudg'd along
, , And sold it to a Bramin , — -for a-song . Thence in Bengal , thro' various hands it pass'd , Next , to a kinsman of my own at last . He dying , gave it me , it's virtues rare Unfolded , and soon felt a joj'ful ' heir . To pass where-e ' er I pleas'd , unseen and free , O ! what a feast for CURIOSITY !
No more shall Masonry , X cry'd , ' conceal It's mysteries , all it's secrets I ' 11 reveal . No more the fair shall-languish , I'll explain , What they all wish to know , but wish in Vain , I said , and ciap'd the ring upon my finger , Away I went in haste , I did not linger . At a fat brother ' s back , close as his shade ,
I followed , and with him my entry made . The brethren all were met , a social board , I saw unterrified , the guardian sword . I saw ! I saw I and now your ears prepare , For what I saw , I 'II publicly declare . Clear'd was each mental eye , I saw each grace , And each protecting genius of the place .
FRIENDSHIP on wing ^ Etherial , flying round , Stretch'd out her arms and bless'd the hallow'd "round HUMANITY well pleas'd , there took her stand , ° Holding her daughter PITY in her hand ; And CHARITY , which soothes the widow's sigh , And wipes the dew drop from the orphan ' s eye ,