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Ancient Masons' Marks.
ANCIENT MASONS' MARKS .
PART THE THIRD . ( Continuedfrom Vol . II . page 450 . ) " So flits the world ' s uncertain span !
Nor zeal for God , nor love for man , Gives mortal monuments a date , Beyond the power of time and fate . The towers must share the builder ' s doom ; Ruin is theirs , and his a tomb ; But better boon benignant heaven To faith and charity has given ; Ancl bids the Christian hope sublime , Transcend the bounds of fate and time . "
ROKEBY , Canto VI . " Victrix Fortunre Virtus . " —Motto on a mural Tablet to Visit , Adam , G . M . II . in the chapel , Fort St . Angelo , Malta .
An Arch , with its marks ; from Aqueduct near San Giuseppe , Malta . " For mirth is still in sympathy with melancholy , and what , oh ! what thoughts profound circle round the wine-cup , when it flows to the memory of one heloved of yore , —one who had left us in the sunshine of youth , and seems to reappear like a veiled shadow across the light of the festal fire , — and then in a moment away into obliyion . "
These words occur in the " Nights at Ambrose ' s , " and were spoken by the great wielder of the crutch , of whom we have the Ettrick Shepherd saying , " 0 sir , you ' re a Master Mason
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Ancient Masons' Marks.
ANCIENT MASONS' MARKS .
PART THE THIRD . ( Continuedfrom Vol . II . page 450 . ) " So flits the world ' s uncertain span !
Nor zeal for God , nor love for man , Gives mortal monuments a date , Beyond the power of time and fate . The towers must share the builder ' s doom ; Ruin is theirs , and his a tomb ; But better boon benignant heaven To faith and charity has given ; Ancl bids the Christian hope sublime , Transcend the bounds of fate and time . "
ROKEBY , Canto VI . " Victrix Fortunre Virtus . " —Motto on a mural Tablet to Visit , Adam , G . M . II . in the chapel , Fort St . Angelo , Malta .
An Arch , with its marks ; from Aqueduct near San Giuseppe , Malta . " For mirth is still in sympathy with melancholy , and what , oh ! what thoughts profound circle round the wine-cup , when it flows to the memory of one heloved of yore , —one who had left us in the sunshine of youth , and seems to reappear like a veiled shadow across the light of the festal fire , — and then in a moment away into obliyion . "
These words occur in the " Nights at Ambrose ' s , " and were spoken by the great wielder of the crutch , of whom we have the Ettrick Shepherd saying , " 0 sir , you ' re a Master Mason