Poetry.

Poetry .

TO A FRIEND ( GEORGE MARKHAM TWEDDELL ) , WITH A POSY OF POESY . Not mine , the mad ambitious thought to gain The poet's wreathed renown : my simple strain Is but the fitful cadence of a heart Which , by the aid of Poesy ' s sweet art ( As sorrow finds a vent in sighs ancl tears ) ,

Relieves its burning hopes ancl chilling fears . It is a gentle madness , Of ideal gladness , Even though sadness Should qualify the theme : A refuge from the losses , The trials anel the crosses , The worrying woe that tosses Us . as in a fever'd dream .

Is fame an immortality on earth ? 'Tis but it's echo ! and as much is worth : An earthern deep will settle o ' er our head , And waves of teaming life will o ' er us spread ( Our earthly part I mean , —for then the soul Hath seized its freedom , and hath spurn'd control Of earthly things ) . Then why still verses write ? Because in these I find a sweet delight !

My small poetic flower-pot , though it seem Shaped by mere fancy , and though weeds may teem More plentiful than ilowers , yet by me Has cultured been , with cpiiet pleasantry . Such flowers I have I pluck and send to you : If you are pleased , I have my pleasure too . Middlesborough , Sep . 30 , 1870 . ANGUS MACPHERSON .

[ The above poem , received by us last week just before going to press , having been very incorrectly printed , in justice to the Author , we reproduce it as written by him . —ED . F . M .

List Of Lodge, Meetings, &C., For Week Ending 21st October, 1870.

LIST OF LODGE , MEETINGS , & c ., FOR WEEK ENDING 21 ST OCTOBER , 1870 .

METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTERS . Monday , October 17 th . Quarterly Meeting , Boy's School , at 12 . LODGES . —Emulation , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street ; Felicity , London Tavern , Bishopsgate Street ; Tranquility , Radley ' s Hotol , Bridge Street , Blackliiars ; Panmure , Balham Hotel , Balham ; Whittington , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street ; of London

City , Guildhall Coffee House , Gresham Street ; Royal Albert , Freemasons' Hall ; Eclectic , Freemasons' Hall . Tuesday , October 18 / fo . Board of General Purposes at 3 . LODGES . —Mount Lebanon , Bridge House Hotel , Southwark Eastern Star , Ship et Turtle , Leadenhall Street ; Salisbury , ' 71 , Dean Street , Soho . CHAPTERS . —Enoch , Freemasons ' Hall ; Mount Sinai , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street ; Industry Freemason ' s Hall .

Wednesday , October 19 tk . General Committee of Grand Chapter at 3 . Lodge of Benevolence at 7 . LODGES . —Unitc-d Mariners , George Hotel , Aldermanbury ; St George's , Trafalgar Hotel , Greenwich ; Sincerity , Guildhall Tavern , Gresham Street ; Bc-adon , Greyhound Tavern , Dulwich ; Nelson , Masonic Hall , William Street , Woolwich . ThursdayOctober 20 th .

, House Committee , Girls' fichool at 4 . LODGES . —Gihon , Guildhall Coffee House , Gresham Street ; Constitutional , City Terminus Hotel , Cannon Street ; Temperance , White Swan Tavern , High Street ; Manchester , Anderton's Hotel , Fleet Street ; South Norwood , South Norwood Hall , South Norwood . Friday , October 21

st-House Committee , Boys' School . LODGES . —Middlesex , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate Street ; New Concord , Rosemary Branch Tavern , Hoxton ; Rose of Denmark White Hart Tavern , Barues .

Metropolitan Lodges And Chapters Of Instruction.

METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF INSTRUCTION .

Monday , October 10 th . LODGES . — Temple , Old Goorgo , St . Mary Axe . E . C ; Justice , Royal Albert , New Cross-id , Deptford ; St . James ' s Union , Swan Tav . Mouut-st ., Grosveior-sq . ; Industry , Dick ' s Coffee House , Fleet-st . ; Crystal Palace , City Arms Tav ., West-sq ., Southwark ; High Cross , White Hart Ho ., Tottenham ; Eastern Star , Royal Ho ., Burdett-rd ., Mile-end-rd . ; Camden , Adelaide Tav ., Haverstock Hill ; British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tav ., Mile End .

Tuesday , October llth . LODGES 1 —Faith , Fisher ' s Restaurant , Metrop . Dist . Rail ., Victoria Station ; Domatic , Palmerstou Arms , Grosvenor-park , Camberwell ; Jordan , Alwyne Castle , Canonbury ; Yarborough , Green Dragon , Stepney ; Prince Frederick William , Knights of St . John ' s Tav ., St . John's-wood ; Dalhousie , Royal Edward , TriangleHackney ; Royal AlbertWhite

HartAbehurch-, , , lano ; Pythagorean , Prince of Orange , Greenwich ; City ot London , Shepherd and Flock Tav ., Bell-alley , Moorgate-st . ; New Wandsworth , Freemasons' Ho ., New Wandsworth . CHAPTER . —Metropolitan , Price ' s Portugal Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Royal Union , Dubby ' s Hotel , Winsey-st ., Oxford-st . ; Mount Sion , White Hart , Bishopsgate-st ,

Wednesday , October 12 th . LODGES . —Confidence , Railway Tav ., London-st ; United Strength Bull and Gate , Kentish Town ; New Concord , Rosemary Branch Tav ., Hoxton ; St . Mark ' s , Mawby Arms , Mawby-st ., S . Lam ; beth ; Peckham , Maismore Arms , Park-road , Peckham-Rye , Temperance iu the East , George the Fourth , Catherine-st ., Poplar ; Prosperity , Gladstone Tav ., Bishopsgate-strcet . CHAPTER . —St . James's Union , Swan Tav ., Mount-street , Grosvenor-square .

Thursday , October 13 i 7 i . LODGES . —Fidelity , Goat ancl Compasses , Eusfcon-road ; Kent , Dukeol York , Borougb-rd ., Southwark ; United Mariners / Three Cranes , Mile-end-rd . ; Vitruvian , White Hart , College-st ., Lambeth ; St . George's , Globe Tav ., Royal Hill , Greenwich ; Manchester , Berkeley Arms , John-st ., Berkeley-square ; Tranquillity , SugarLoaf'Tav ., Great St . Helen's , E . C . ; Whittington ,

Crown Hotel , 41 , High Holborn ; Royal Oak , Royal Oak Tavern , Deptford ; Burdett Coutts , Approach Tav ., Victoriapark , at 7 . CHAPTER . —Joppa , Prospect of Whitb y Tav ., 57 , Wapping-wali .

Friday , October 14 th . LODGES—St . Luke's , Pier Hotel , Cheyne-walk , Chelsea ; Temperance , Victoria Tavern , Victoria-road , Deptford ; Unions ( Emulation Lodge of Improvement for M . M . ) , F . M . II . : United Pilgrims , Horns' Tavern , Kennington ; Wostbourne , the Grapes , Duke-st ., Manchester ; square ; Wellington , Lord Duncan Tavern , Broadway , Deptford ; Florence Nightingale , Freemasons' Tav ., Woolwich ;

Ranclagh , Windsor Castle Hotel , King-st ., Hammersmith ; Belgrnve , Duke of Wellington , Spring-gardens , Charing-cross ; St . James ' s , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-row , Bermondsey ; Doric , Three Cranes , Mile Eud-rd . ; Victoria , Audertons' Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Hervey , Britannia , Walbam-grcen ; Metropolitan , Price ' s Portugal Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Charter House , Hat and Feathers Tavern , 27 , Goswell-rd . ; Robert Burns , Union Tav . ; Air-street , Regent-st . CHAPTERS . —Domatic , Fisher ' s Restaurant , Victoria Station ; Robert Burns , Knights of St . John ' s Hotel , St . John ' s Wood .

Saturday , October loth : CHAPTERS . —Mount Sinia , Union Tavern , Air-street , Regentstreet ; Domatic , Horns , Kensington .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

* , * ' All Communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , W . C . WE shall be glad to receive from brethren any proceedings of Masonic meetings , which shall be duly inserted . Communications shoulel he forwarded so as to reach us as early in the week as convenient—not later than Wednesday if possible , We have to request our correspondents to be particular in writing names distinctly .