National Prejudices, No. I.

National Prejudices, No. I. [No. 73]

Love well thy Native Land!—all that is Great
And Glorious in its History, make thine Own.
Aided by other Countries, it has grown
To what it Is: Unaided, none can mate
With Civilised Communities. We prate 5
Most foolishly when we set up to be
The ever People ever Wise and Free,
And dare to look on other Lands with Hate.
The Great, whate’er their Clime, belong to All:
Nations are Tribes of one Great Family: 10
Eons of Heat or Cold have made One be
Dark and the other Fair. I cannot call
That Man a true Freemason whose weak Soul
Has Sympathies mere Climate can control!

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887