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Article THE SONGS OF MASONRY. ← Page 4 of 13 →
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The Songs Of Masonry.
Mysteriously gabbling , With scribbling ancl squabbling , And quibblingiy babbling , Their thoughts vainly twisted , The true summum bonum To find , ' till 'twas shown ' em , By jolly Freemasons , wherein it consisted .
¦ ' To those who sought after a state apathetic Freemasonry often has freed them from cares ; To those too who fain would mount Plato ' s phrenetic 'Tis proved they would send their brains past the five spheres . Ancl to all in subjection To grave circumspection , Of aqueous complexion ,
We make it appear That , spite of all grumbling And phlegmatic mumbling , Masons great as immortals are in the idea .
" By Aristotelian rules , curiously teclmic , 'Bout essence or substance , a vacuum or plenum , Let Philomaths battle , with arms dialectic , So fiercely , that few like to venture between ' em ; T' each other e ' en mystic , In form syllogystic , Or mode rhapsodistic ,
Most learnedly fine ! They'll ne ' er gain the station , Which , in fight Pegasian , Freemasons have reached , who are surely divine . " Among moderns , let and keep squabbling About rights of man;—they are all in the dark , But Masons , while quaffing , are convinced without dabbling
In their works democratic , that they re nearer the mark . For while with sage muttering , Disloyalty uttering , Each declaimer sputtering , They each other spatter ; Loyal Masons declare That if such worthies are
Neither Masons , nor loyal , they ' re lumps of dull matter . " Though , not to detain you from offering oblations , To Anacreon ' s shrine , for in truth , 1 grow thirsty : Let ' s drink to the first of all sects—the Freemasons , Who , in Charity ' s cause , of all sects will the first be . From which we surel
may , y , Infer , most securely , That , strictly ancl purely , Freemasons alone , In doctrine and practice , For such the real fact is , Are thc happiest and truest philosophers known .
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The Songs Of Masonry.
Mysteriously gabbling , With scribbling ancl squabbling , And quibblingiy babbling , Their thoughts vainly twisted , The true summum bonum To find , ' till 'twas shown ' em , By jolly Freemasons , wherein it consisted .
¦ ' To those who sought after a state apathetic Freemasonry often has freed them from cares ; To those too who fain would mount Plato ' s phrenetic 'Tis proved they would send their brains past the five spheres . Ancl to all in subjection To grave circumspection , Of aqueous complexion ,
We make it appear That , spite of all grumbling And phlegmatic mumbling , Masons great as immortals are in the idea .
" By Aristotelian rules , curiously teclmic , 'Bout essence or substance , a vacuum or plenum , Let Philomaths battle , with arms dialectic , So fiercely , that few like to venture between ' em ; T' each other e ' en mystic , In form syllogystic , Or mode rhapsodistic ,
Most learnedly fine ! They'll ne ' er gain the station , Which , in fight Pegasian , Freemasons have reached , who are surely divine . " Among moderns , let and keep squabbling About rights of man;—they are all in the dark , But Masons , while quaffing , are convinced without dabbling
In their works democratic , that they re nearer the mark . For while with sage muttering , Disloyalty uttering , Each declaimer sputtering , They each other spatter ; Loyal Masons declare That if such worthies are
Neither Masons , nor loyal , they ' re lumps of dull matter . " Though , not to detain you from offering oblations , To Anacreon ' s shrine , for in truth , 1 grow thirsty : Let ' s drink to the first of all sects—the Freemasons , Who , in Charity ' s cause , of all sects will the first be . From which we surel
may , y , Infer , most securely , That , strictly ancl purely , Freemasons alone , In doctrine and practice , For such the real fact is , Are thc happiest and truest philosophers known .