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On Freemasonry.
Gifted with energies , which time alone Can bound or span , with this fair world his own ; Woman , his sweet companion from her birth , His joy alike in paradise or earth . Was , ere the Architect , ' mid songs of love ,
Resumed his throne in the vast lodge above ,-Pronounced , with all that breathe in land or flood , Created pure , and in his judgment good . Transient man ' s innocence , ' twere vain to tell How weakly tempted , he as weakly fell , Though wrath omnipotent the sentence gave ,
His love as infinite resolved to save ; And death , the punishment , was changed to be The birth of future immortality . This was his hope when Eden ' s distant bowers Were but remember'd , like the sun-bright hours Of faded youth , which oft to age appears Through the long vista of receding years .
This sacred pledge—the great Creator ' s name , And holy worship with our parent came , Who in the progress of revolving time , Gave to his race that mystery sublime , That science pure , with deepest wisdom fraught , Which angel lips in Eden ' s vale had taught ;
That secret art , that illustrative rite , First named in honour of its emblem , light ; Bnt known to modern ages as our free . Accepted , ancient science , Masonry . Brightly it flourish'd , till man ' s innate pride Sullied its purity , and God denied ;
Offering that homage to mere wood and stone , Which reason claims as due to Him alone ; Enoch , ere yet the dreadful doom was hurl'd , That brought destruction on a guilty world , Conceal'd -within the cavem'd womb of earth , The awful symbols that from God had birth ; In darkness shone the light in that lone spot , The darkness felt , yet understood it not .
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On Freemasonry.
Gifted with energies , which time alone Can bound or span , with this fair world his own ; Woman , his sweet companion from her birth , His joy alike in paradise or earth . Was , ere the Architect , ' mid songs of love ,
Resumed his throne in the vast lodge above ,-Pronounced , with all that breathe in land or flood , Created pure , and in his judgment good . Transient man ' s innocence , ' twere vain to tell How weakly tempted , he as weakly fell , Though wrath omnipotent the sentence gave ,
His love as infinite resolved to save ; And death , the punishment , was changed to be The birth of future immortality . This was his hope when Eden ' s distant bowers Were but remember'd , like the sun-bright hours Of faded youth , which oft to age appears Through the long vista of receding years .
This sacred pledge—the great Creator ' s name , And holy worship with our parent came , Who in the progress of revolving time , Gave to his race that mystery sublime , That science pure , with deepest wisdom fraught , Which angel lips in Eden ' s vale had taught ;
That secret art , that illustrative rite , First named in honour of its emblem , light ; Bnt known to modern ages as our free . Accepted , ancient science , Masonry . Brightly it flourish'd , till man ' s innate pride Sullied its purity , and God denied ;
Offering that homage to mere wood and stone , Which reason claims as due to Him alone ; Enoch , ere yet the dreadful doom was hurl'd , That brought destruction on a guilty world , Conceal'd -within the cavem'd womb of earth , The awful symbols that from God had birth ; In darkness shone the light in that lone spot , The darkness felt , yet understood it not .