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The Freemason;
Love in the Lodge as Master took the chair , Reason and Constancy our Wardens were ; True Confidence was Orator * , and told The mysteries which I cannot unfold ; Hope was our Treasurer , and Order , too , Was Secretary , to their duties true ; Our Master of the Ceremonies there
, Indulgence , bid us for all joys prepare . COUNT . It all sounds pretty—And yet with all this—I do not know what a Freemason is . BAR . And why not know ? and why do you not ask ? The answer is indeed a pleasant task : A Mason is a man whose sole delight , Is to be honourable and upriht
g ; To be a really honest man ' s his aim , He sees but vanity in rank or name ; To all who ' re in distress , in ev ' ry land , He is a friend , and gives a brother ' s hand ; His word ' s a sacred pledge of truth , and he
Ne ' er utters , e ' en in jest , a falsity ; His life in charity he seeks t' employ . And finds in doing good a heavenly joy ; And when cold cares this worthy man oppress , His trust in Heaven makes him feel them less ; He fears not , neither deems he death a foe , But a deliv ' rance from this world of woe ; From every superstition is he free
, And hateful to him is idolatry ; Yet is he not an infidel , because He honours God , his sov ' reign , and the laws ; And if blessed with a loving wife , why , then , He may become the very best of men . CAR . One question I would ask . BAR . Speak , Caroline .
CAR . Are all so good ? BAR . TO answer I decline . LATOMUS .
MAN . The mind is the man ; and the knowledge of the mind . A . man is but what he knoweth . The sovereignty of man heth hid m knowledge , wherein many things are reserved , which kings with then treasures cannot buy , nor with their forces command . —Bacon .
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The Freemason;
Love in the Lodge as Master took the chair , Reason and Constancy our Wardens were ; True Confidence was Orator * , and told The mysteries which I cannot unfold ; Hope was our Treasurer , and Order , too , Was Secretary , to their duties true ; Our Master of the Ceremonies there
, Indulgence , bid us for all joys prepare . COUNT . It all sounds pretty—And yet with all this—I do not know what a Freemason is . BAR . And why not know ? and why do you not ask ? The answer is indeed a pleasant task : A Mason is a man whose sole delight , Is to be honourable and upriht
g ; To be a really honest man ' s his aim , He sees but vanity in rank or name ; To all who ' re in distress , in ev ' ry land , He is a friend , and gives a brother ' s hand ; His word ' s a sacred pledge of truth , and he
Ne ' er utters , e ' en in jest , a falsity ; His life in charity he seeks t' employ . And finds in doing good a heavenly joy ; And when cold cares this worthy man oppress , His trust in Heaven makes him feel them less ; He fears not , neither deems he death a foe , But a deliv ' rance from this world of woe ; From every superstition is he free
, And hateful to him is idolatry ; Yet is he not an infidel , because He honours God , his sov ' reign , and the laws ; And if blessed with a loving wife , why , then , He may become the very best of men . CAR . One question I would ask . BAR . Speak , Caroline .
CAR . Are all so good ? BAR . TO answer I decline . LATOMUS .
MAN . The mind is the man ; and the knowledge of the mind . A . man is but what he knoweth . The sovereignty of man heth hid m knowledge , wherein many things are reserved , which kings with then treasures cannot buy , nor with their forces command . —Bacon .