COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MASSACHUSETTS. [Set to music by the R. W. Brother HOLDEN, and fung on the 11th of Feb. 5800, the day fet apart by the Grand Lodge to pay their funeral bonors to their Brother GEORGE WASHINGTON.] WHILE every Orator and Bard difplays The HERO's glory and the PATRIOT's fame; And ALL the GUARDIAN OF THEIR COUNTRY praise, Revere his greatness and his worth proclaim— WE mourn the MAN, made our's by tendereft ties, Their honor'd CHIEFTAIN, our lov'd BROTHER dies! Come then, the myftic rites no more delay; Deep filence reigns, the tapers dimly burn: WISDOM and FORTITUDE the requiem pay, And BEAUTY ftrews fresh garlands round the urn. A MASON, brothers; a GRAND MASTER dies! The caffia fprig defignates where he lies. AS LOVE FRATERNAL leads our footsteps there, Again to weep, again to bid adieu, FAITH views the foul, releas'd from mortal care, Through fpheres empyreal its bleft course purfue, "Till it the LODGE OF PERFECT LIGHT attain; There may we meet our WASHINGTON again. A HYMN, SUNG AT THE CONSECRATION OF UNION LODGE, IN I. GREAT fource of light and love, II. Shine on this festive day, Succeed its hop'd defign: And may our charity display III. May this fraternal band, Now confecrated, bless'd, In UNION all diftinguish'd stand, In PURITY be drefs'd! IV. May all the fons of peace Their every grace improve; 'Till difcord through the nations cease, 1 TRANSLATION OF THE NOTES. PAGE 17. THIS is genuine and indiffoluble FRATERNITY, growing out of the virtue and perfection of minds! whose once formed league neither the diversity of defires nor contrariety of wills can difannul: whose principles lead to venerate the worthy and rebuke the diffolute member; to be obliging to the brother when prefent, and not to speak ill of him when abfent; to congratulate him in health, and not to defert him when infirm; to rejoice with him if rich, and to assist him if poor. PAGE 21. For a brother not to defert his brother, is also a rare honor to that near relationship. A true companion loves at all times: he is a brother born for adverfity. PAGE 24. As when the Sun breaks forth with splendors gay, But foon as clouds o'ercast his happier light, In misfortunes the friend deferts his friend. PAGE 29. Dear Brother of the choice! A band more facred Than Nature's brittle tie! PAGE 36. Companions, cherished with fraternal love! PAGE 40. Now came the Orator, and audience afk'd; Bearing the peaceful OLIVE BRANCH PAGE 65. Among other good things which render men amiable to their neighbors and pleafing to GoD, we believe that to be most acceptable which infures charity in the heart and operates as a bond of union to different minds. This good is PEACE, by which hatred is dispelled, rancor allayed, envy driven away, and anger repreffed; which pacifies the mind, conciliates the heart, afsuages the breaft, and renders concordant the affections. This is what we seek to plant, to propagate, and to nourish among the fons of the church: this is what we wish to bring to fruit among kings, princes, and great men.* PAGE 171. These men, skilled in divine and human knowledge, do not disclose to the vulgar the hidden fignifications contained under the natural appearances, but veil them under figures and cmblems. Yet they are ready to reveal them, in a proper place, and with due ceremonies to those who are defirous and worthy of being initiated. So far I may be permitted to say with respect ; preferving a reverential filence as to what farther relates to these myftic rites. [This note is extracted from a work of HELIODORUS, Bifcop of Tricca, whe flourifced in the Wth century.] Moft of the other Latin notes are explained in the passages to which they are annexed. I have taken the liberty to translate two or three sentences more of this fine paragraph than what I had transcribed for a note. |