Cliques.

Cliques. [No. 69]

No Clique should we be able e’er to trace
In a Freemasons’ Lodge: there all should be
Kind, Just, and Candid—perfect Amity;
Each able an implicit Trust to place
In every Brother’s Honour. Are not we 5
Bound each to Aid each other and our Race?—
To seek in daily practice to embrace
Each Virtue that adorns Humanity?
Cliques spring from selfish thirst for Place and Power,
And are most Unmasonic: let them ne’er 10
Disturb the Harmony with which we cheer
The Pilgrimage of Life. Love is a dower
Too precious to be idly cast away;
And Justice, Truth, will Blessings bring for aye.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887