Classic Poem

O, what a goodly heritage
?The Lord to us has given!
How blest the brotherhood that pledge
?Their Mason vows to Heaven!
We sing the mystic chain that binds
?These western realms in one;
Such loving hearts, such liberal minds,
?No other land has known.
Ten thousand lights in Mason halls
?Are gleaming on our eyes;
Ten thousand emblems on the walls
?Tell whence the gleaming is;
And when the portals ope, to pass
?The humble seeker in,
The voice of prayer pervades the place,
?And proves the light D IVINE !
On every hill our Brothers lie,
?And green sprigs deck the knoll;
Their fall brought sorrow to the eye,
?But triumph to the soul.
Our orphans sing in many a home,
?Our widows' hearts are glad,
And Mason light dispels the gloom
?And comfort finds the sad.
Thus link in link, from shore to shore,
?The mystic chain is wound;
Oh, blended thus forevermore,
?Be Mason spirit found!
And while the Heavens, on pillars sure,
?Of S TRENGTH and W ISDOM stand,
May Brotherhood like ours endure,
?Where Strength and Wisdom blend!