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Our Archi.Teqtijral Chapter
Our northern Brethren have particularly distinguisheel themselves this year by their Masonic celebrations . W ^ e have chronicled the Edinburgh Hall , the Greenock Theatre , and the Biggar Railway . We can only point to these examples of growing zeal , and urge them on our southern Brethren , It is by these solemnities that Masonry is in a great degree maiiitained in public esteem in Scotland , and which is so markedly manifested .
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. ERGM POETRY .. OF THE ; SIXTEENTHCENTURY . : '
THE MARIG-OLIX . BY GEORGE WITHER . ( 1588 ) . . Wri | iK- with a serious musing I behold The gratefully obsequious marigold ; How duly every morning she displays Her open breast , when Titan spreads his rays : How she observes him in his daily walk , Still bending tow ' rds him her small slender stalk ; How when lie down declines , she droops and mourns , Bedew'd , as 'twere with tears , till he returns : —
/ i 7 And how she veils her flowers when he is gone , As if she scorned to be looked , on By an inferior eye , or did contemn To wait upon a meaner light titan him—When thus I meditate , methinks the flowers Have spirits far more generous than ours , And give us fair example to despise The servile frownings and idolatries , Wherewith we court these earthly tilings below , Which merit not the service we bestow .
SI INSET , / HY FJIANCIS QTJAMJte .
The day grows old ; the low-pitched lamp bath made No less than triple shade—And the ascending damp doth now prepare To uncurl bright Titan's hair , Whose western wardrobe now begins V unfold Her purples fringed with gold , ' To clothe his evening : glory , " when the alarms Of rest , shall call to rest in restless Thetis' anus . ,
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Our Archi.Teqtijral Chapter
Our northern Brethren have particularly distinguisheel themselves this year by their Masonic celebrations . W ^ e have chronicled the Edinburgh Hall , the Greenock Theatre , and the Biggar Railway . We can only point to these examples of growing zeal , and urge them on our southern Brethren , It is by these solemnities that Masonry is in a great degree maiiitained in public esteem in Scotland , and which is so markedly manifested .
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. ERGM POETRY .. OF THE ; SIXTEENTHCENTURY . : '
THE MARIG-OLIX . BY GEORGE WITHER . ( 1588 ) . . Wri | iK- with a serious musing I behold The gratefully obsequious marigold ; How duly every morning she displays Her open breast , when Titan spreads his rays : How she observes him in his daily walk , Still bending tow ' rds him her small slender stalk ; How when lie down declines , she droops and mourns , Bedew'd , as 'twere with tears , till he returns : —
/ i 7 And how she veils her flowers when he is gone , As if she scorned to be looked , on By an inferior eye , or did contemn To wait upon a meaner light titan him—When thus I meditate , methinks the flowers Have spirits far more generous than ours , And give us fair example to despise The servile frownings and idolatries , Wherewith we court these earthly tilings below , Which merit not the service we bestow .
SI INSET , / HY FJIANCIS QTJAMJte .
The day grows old ; the low-pitched lamp bath made No less than triple shade—And the ascending damp doth now prepare To uncurl bright Titan's hair , Whose western wardrobe now begins V unfold Her purples fringed with gold , ' To clothe his evening : glory , " when the alarms Of rest , shall call to rest in restless Thetis' anus . ,