Precept and Practice.

Precept and Practice. [No. 65]

Brothers! If we would all be Masons true:
In public and in private strove to be
Faithful unto the Principles which we
Are taught in our tyled Lodges; they would imbue
Our Minds with all which tends to elevate 5
The Man above the Brute. A Phalanx firm,
Standing unmoved by any raging Storm
Of Worldly Cares or Wickedness, our state
Would then be one of Peace with God and Man.
All that is Pure and Lovely would be ours; 10
And we should feel within us nobler powers
Of thought and Action, than we ever can
So much as dream of, marching to our graves
Mere slothful, sinful, worldly-minded Slaves.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887