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Tubal Cain
by Charles Mackay

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might
In the days when the Earth was young;
By the fierce red light of his furnace bright
The strokes of his hammer rung;
And he lifted high his brawny hand
On the iron glowing clear,
Till the sparks rushed out in scarlet showers
And he fashioned the sword and spear.
And he sang "Hurra for the handiwork!
Hurra for the spear and sword!
Hurra for the hand that shall wield them well,
For he shall be king and lord!"

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The Candidate
by Brother Joe Ohlandt, PM
Acacia Lodge #20, Dover, NJ

The candidate is coming, all dressed in white,
How he has looked forward to this night,
Arrived in his suit, all pressed and clean,
Ready to see what it all means.

The greetings are many, all friends to be,
The hands and faces is all he can see,
They get on their aprons, and off they go,
What's going on, he wants to know.

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The Masonic Ring
Author Unknown

Those men who help my dad each day,
They wear those Mason rings.
A Square and Compass set in gold,
The praise of which I sing.

My dad, he hurt his back you know,
One cold and wintery day.
He slipped and fell upon the ice,
The insurance would not pay.

And since that time those rings I see,
On hands that help us much.
With mowing lawns and hauling trash,
Each day my heart they touch.

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The Level and the Square
By Robert Morris

We meet upon the level, and we part upon the square,
What words of precious meaning those words Masonic are!
Come, let us contemplate them; they are worthy of a thought,
With the highest and the lowest and
the rarest they are fraught.

We meet upon the level, though from every station come
The King from out his palace and the poor man from his home;
For the one must leave his diadem without the Mason's door,
And the other finds his true respect upon the checkered floor.

We part upon the square, for the world must have its due;
We mingle with its multitude, a cold, unfriendly crew;
But the influence of our gatherings in memory is green,
And we long, upon the level, to renew the happy scene.

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Inside the Masons
By Jay Tolson - U.S. News & World Reports
Posted 8/28/05

The fraternal order has long been the target of conspiracy theories and hoaxes. Here's the real story.

The 1820s looked as though they would be the best of times for the special relationship between the fraternal order of Freemasonry and the young American nation. It wasn't just because so many prominent members of the founding generation--George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and indeed 13 of the 39 signers of the Constitution--had been members. It was also because the rapidly growing republic and the fraternal society
still held so many ideals in common.

American republican values looked like Masonic values writ large: honorable civic-mindedness, a high regard for learning and progress, and what might be called a broad and tolerant religiosity. Indeed, says Steven Bullock, a historian at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a leading scholar of the Masonic fraternity in America, Freemasons "helped to give the new nation a symbolic core."

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