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Thus ; it would appear that the first lodge was held on the departure of . ' Noah and his family from the ark ; but another writer gives us a still earlier ancestry j he says u When earth ' s foundation first was laid 'Twas then our perfect laws were made , Which soon prevailed throughout the land "And that this author was not singular , we have the testimony of Br ^ 3 ames Eyre Weekes , who wrote the libretto of " Solomon ' s Temple , '' ali oratorio the music to which was composed by Bro . iilicha way , organist of St . Patricks Cathedral , and performed in Dublin , towards the close of ih £ last century , for the benefit of sick and distressed Freemasons , In one of the recitativ ^^
'Twas thou alone who gay ' st the ark its form , Which sav'd the faithful from th' impending storm When sinful cowans were grov'ling in the tide . 7
The Masonsark triumphantly did ride 0 er mightyi-waves , nor cared they where it steered , 'Till floods abated and dry land appeared . On Ararat , after the dreadful storm , These stood their ark , and open'd lodge in fbrai .
u The Lord supreme , Grand Master of the sides Who bade creation from a chaos rise , The rules of architecture first engrav'd On Adam ' s heart . " And we are also told , in a recitativea Adam , well vers'd in arts ,
Gave to Ms sons the plumb and line ; By Masonry , sage Tubal Cain To the deep organ tun'd the strain . " In a song by Bro . Samuel Porter , P . M . of St . John ' s Lodge , Hen Iey 4 n-Arden , he also deduces our origin from the time " When our Grand Architect above
An arch soon rais'd by his decree , And plac'd the sun the arch key-stone , The whole was form'd by Masonry . " Bro , J . Bisset , Steward of St . Alban ' s Lodge , and Prov . G . S , for the province of Warwick , wrote an imitation of the old ballad , " A Sailor ' s life ' s a life of woe , " altering it to " A Mason ' s life ' s the life for me ; " in the fourth verse he adverts to the origin of Masonry in the following strain : — " Th Almighty said , ' Let there be light , ' Effulgent rays appearing , Dispell'd the gloom , the glory bright To this new world was cheering : But unto Masonry alone Another light so clear and bright In mystic rays then ahone * "
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Songb^
Thus ; it would appear that the first lodge was held on the departure of . ' Noah and his family from the ark ; but another writer gives us a still earlier ancestry j he says u When earth ' s foundation first was laid 'Twas then our perfect laws were made , Which soon prevailed throughout the land "And that this author was not singular , we have the testimony of Br ^ 3 ames Eyre Weekes , who wrote the libretto of " Solomon ' s Temple , '' ali oratorio the music to which was composed by Bro . iilicha way , organist of St . Patricks Cathedral , and performed in Dublin , towards the close of ih £ last century , for the benefit of sick and distressed Freemasons , In one of the recitativ ^^
'Twas thou alone who gay ' st the ark its form , Which sav'd the faithful from th' impending storm When sinful cowans were grov'ling in the tide . 7
The Masonsark triumphantly did ride 0 er mightyi-waves , nor cared they where it steered , 'Till floods abated and dry land appeared . On Ararat , after the dreadful storm , These stood their ark , and open'd lodge in fbrai .
u The Lord supreme , Grand Master of the sides Who bade creation from a chaos rise , The rules of architecture first engrav'd On Adam ' s heart . " And we are also told , in a recitativea Adam , well vers'd in arts ,
Gave to Ms sons the plumb and line ; By Masonry , sage Tubal Cain To the deep organ tun'd the strain . " In a song by Bro . Samuel Porter , P . M . of St . John ' s Lodge , Hen Iey 4 n-Arden , he also deduces our origin from the time " When our Grand Architect above
An arch soon rais'd by his decree , And plac'd the sun the arch key-stone , The whole was form'd by Masonry . " Bro , J . Bisset , Steward of St . Alban ' s Lodge , and Prov . G . S , for the province of Warwick , wrote an imitation of the old ballad , " A Sailor ' s life ' s a life of woe , " altering it to " A Mason ' s life ' s the life for me ; " in the fourth verse he adverts to the origin of Masonry in the following strain : — " Th Almighty said , ' Let there be light , ' Effulgent rays appearing , Dispell'd the gloom , the glory bright To this new world was cheering : But unto Masonry alone Another light so clear and bright In mystic rays then ahone * "