Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

26 PRETENSIONS OF FREE MASONRY,
"With horrible convulsion, to and rro,
' ** He tugged—he shook—till down they came, and drew
" The whole roof after them, with bunt of thunder,
" Upon the heads of all who eat beneath."
*
This was a miracle; but the masonic event was a molester,
ill-formed, hideous, and merciless; destroying not the
enemies of Israel, not the assassins of Tyre, but the genuine
ancient master masons of king Solomon's temple.
CHAPTER VI.
" Come are you prepared r " "
«* Your scaffolds well reared f
* Bring mortar, and temper it purely;
"TUB all safe I hope,
M Well braced with each rope,
" Tour ledgers and putlocki securely."
* Empires and kinga have pasted away
" Into oblivion's mine;
" And towering domes have felt decay,
M Since auld lang syne."
11 But Masonry, the glorious art,
* With wisdom's ray divine;
« ^Vasever so, the Hebrew cries,
* Since auld lang syne."
Crotft CharU
IT is impossible, in an age, to meet all the pretensions of
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