Friendship, No. V.

Friendship, No. V. [No. 79]

There is no Friendship ever known to man
More pure than that true Masonry imparts:
It is a perfect union of hearts,
Together bound with cords of love, which can
Bless each and all who own this heavenly dower. 5
The Good alone can feel this “Mystic Tie:”
And every Mason ought to seek to vie
Alone in Deeds of Goodness. In the hour
Of fell Adversity—though Clouds may lour
Above and all around him—he will find 10
Some Brother Mason who will seek to bind
Up all his wounds. There is a magic power
In Masonry to link in Friendship’s chain
Each man possess’d of noble heart and brain.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887