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Installation Ode. Blue Lodge.
Oh , happy earth !—true type of Heav n , when man to man shall he A brother , friend , from petty strifes and all fierce passions free ; When Faith and Hope and Charity shall sway the Enlighten'd world , And War ' s red banner never more again shall be unfurled . Oh , may the Master of this loclge high precepts e ' er instil , And be endowed with grace ane ! strength his chair to nobly fill ! And , like the rising sun which glows all radiant in the '' East , " May he attain his zenith height with light and strength increased !
The Worthy Brother in the " West , " like to the setting sun , May he hi splendour sink to rest his course of duty run ! And may the " Junior , " in the " South , " like that bright orb of clay , Ne ' er have a shadow to becloud his high meridian ray . Dear brethren , let us ever meet" upon the level" here ; " Act hy the plumb , " and then we need have little cause to fear :
And when the final summons conies and bids us to prepare , In Faith and Hope and Charity " we'll part upon the square . " ^ Thus , brethren , when our mortal part in " cold obstruction " lies , The soul shall enter the Grand Lodge beyond the starry skies , And the Great Architect divine , by " signs " and " tokens " known , Will welcome each among the host around th' Eternal Throne . " So mote it be . "
Reviews.
Reviews .
HEINRICH HEINE .
TIME , which heals many wounds and redresses many wrongs ; Time , which reverses many judgments , and rehabilitates many reputations , is already favouring in relenting criticism , the memory of the great German Poet ! As a rule , in our humble opinion , contemporary criticism is not to be relied upon , inasmuch as it is affected and often warped by a thousand conflicting and passing influences . For instance , each age has its modes of thought , its fashions , its frames , its
feelings , and—if you like—its empiricism and its mannerisms . We are all of us , more than we are aware , afflicted by the clique or the " clue , " the " vanity" of the age in which our lost is cast . But the posthumus judgment of an enli ghtened and impartial assessor whom we find in a subsequent generation , thinking , intellectual , and fair , mostly reverses the hasty dictum of the critic , or the partial appreciation of the censor of to-day .
, There is a general , if . hazy , idea , which clings to the name of Heinrich Heine . It * this , —that he is the embodiment of an intellectual unbeliever , of a witty revolutionist . And hence , except to the few who have had the courage and perseverance to faster and realize the true facts of the case , his writings are almost a sealed book . They form part of that " Index Expurgatorius " to which , —and even in Protestant England , as in non-Roman Catholic countries , —haste , and doubt , and stupidity ,
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Installation Ode. Blue Lodge.
Oh , happy earth !—true type of Heav n , when man to man shall he A brother , friend , from petty strifes and all fierce passions free ; When Faith and Hope and Charity shall sway the Enlighten'd world , And War ' s red banner never more again shall be unfurled . Oh , may the Master of this loclge high precepts e ' er instil , And be endowed with grace ane ! strength his chair to nobly fill ! And , like the rising sun which glows all radiant in the '' East , " May he attain his zenith height with light and strength increased !
The Worthy Brother in the " West , " like to the setting sun , May he hi splendour sink to rest his course of duty run ! And may the " Junior , " in the " South , " like that bright orb of clay , Ne ' er have a shadow to becloud his high meridian ray . Dear brethren , let us ever meet" upon the level" here ; " Act hy the plumb , " and then we need have little cause to fear :
And when the final summons conies and bids us to prepare , In Faith and Hope and Charity " we'll part upon the square . " ^ Thus , brethren , when our mortal part in " cold obstruction " lies , The soul shall enter the Grand Lodge beyond the starry skies , And the Great Architect divine , by " signs " and " tokens " known , Will welcome each among the host around th' Eternal Throne . " So mote it be . "
Reviews.
Reviews .
HEINRICH HEINE .
TIME , which heals many wounds and redresses many wrongs ; Time , which reverses many judgments , and rehabilitates many reputations , is already favouring in relenting criticism , the memory of the great German Poet ! As a rule , in our humble opinion , contemporary criticism is not to be relied upon , inasmuch as it is affected and often warped by a thousand conflicting and passing influences . For instance , each age has its modes of thought , its fashions , its frames , its
feelings , and—if you like—its empiricism and its mannerisms . We are all of us , more than we are aware , afflicted by the clique or the " clue , " the " vanity" of the age in which our lost is cast . But the posthumus judgment of an enli ghtened and impartial assessor whom we find in a subsequent generation , thinking , intellectual , and fair , mostly reverses the hasty dictum of the critic , or the partial appreciation of the censor of to-day .
, There is a general , if . hazy , idea , which clings to the name of Heinrich Heine . It * this , —that he is the embodiment of an intellectual unbeliever , of a witty revolutionist . And hence , except to the few who have had the courage and perseverance to faster and realize the true facts of the case , his writings are almost a sealed book . They form part of that " Index Expurgatorius " to which , —and even in Protestant England , as in non-Roman Catholic countries , —haste , and doubt , and stupidity ,