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On Freemasonry.
The hoary sage , the hunter fierce and bold , Tbe thrifty herdsmen , with their flocks untold ; Not e ' en a wreck remains to mark their doom , Buried alike the victim and the tomb . Earth's second parent , sadly and alone , His simple altar rear'd of unhewn stone .
And offer'd sacrifice to Him , whose sway The storm , the tempest , and the flood obey . Untaught by wisdom , mindless of the past , Ham and his sons forsook their God at last ; Noah's awful curse their future fate foretold , Their children ' s children bought like herds for gold .
By Shem ' s pure race , to distant Shinar driven , The pile was raised , they sought to rear to heaven ; But soon the God , whose name they had denied , His power display'd , and check'd their impious pride ; O ' er their struck souls doubt and confusion hung , Dismay'd their rulers , changed their mocking
tongue-Sadly they wander'd forth in lonely bands , And planted nations in Earth's distant lands : The haughty Canaanite ; tbe Tyrian slave ;
Carthage , whose empire found a Roman grave ; Afric ' s fierce tribes , whose heritage , the chain , Labour , and stripes—indignity and pain—Exist , the record of Almighty will ; The curse , pronounced of old , prevailing still . On Shem ' s true sons , in their obedience blest ,
The sacred pledge and its fulfilment rest . To Abraham a son of hope is given , Whose seed shall gain for man his forfeit heaven . From Isaac ' s loins twin heirs of promise came : The hungry Esau . sells his elder claim ; Slave of his lusts , weds the foul Hittite ' s child ,
Becomes a hunter of the desert wild . Jacob supplies the absent wand ' rer ' s place , Obtains the sacred blessing of his race ; Flies from his brother ' s wrath , intent to gain His uncle Laban ' s tents and fertile plains ; But in the desert a bright vision came ,
His father ' s God proclaims his awful name , Displays the ladder trod by feet divine , The moral steps , the symbol and the sign , That will conduct , when life ' s short dream is past , Each faithful brother lo his home at last .
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On Freemasonry.
The hoary sage , the hunter fierce and bold , Tbe thrifty herdsmen , with their flocks untold ; Not e ' en a wreck remains to mark their doom , Buried alike the victim and the tomb . Earth's second parent , sadly and alone , His simple altar rear'd of unhewn stone .
And offer'd sacrifice to Him , whose sway The storm , the tempest , and the flood obey . Untaught by wisdom , mindless of the past , Ham and his sons forsook their God at last ; Noah's awful curse their future fate foretold , Their children ' s children bought like herds for gold .
By Shem ' s pure race , to distant Shinar driven , The pile was raised , they sought to rear to heaven ; But soon the God , whose name they had denied , His power display'd , and check'd their impious pride ; O ' er their struck souls doubt and confusion hung , Dismay'd their rulers , changed their mocking
tongue-Sadly they wander'd forth in lonely bands , And planted nations in Earth's distant lands : The haughty Canaanite ; tbe Tyrian slave ;
Carthage , whose empire found a Roman grave ; Afric ' s fierce tribes , whose heritage , the chain , Labour , and stripes—indignity and pain—Exist , the record of Almighty will ; The curse , pronounced of old , prevailing still . On Shem ' s true sons , in their obedience blest ,
The sacred pledge and its fulfilment rest . To Abraham a son of hope is given , Whose seed shall gain for man his forfeit heaven . From Isaac ' s loins twin heirs of promise came : The hungry Esau . sells his elder claim ; Slave of his lusts , weds the foul Hittite ' s child ,
Becomes a hunter of the desert wild . Jacob supplies the absent wand ' rer ' s place , Obtains the sacred blessing of his race ; Flies from his brother ' s wrath , intent to gain His uncle Laban ' s tents and fertile plains ; But in the desert a bright vision came ,
His father ' s God proclaims his awful name , Displays the ladder trod by feet divine , The moral steps , the symbol and the sign , That will conduct , when life ' s short dream is past , Each faithful brother lo his home at last .