The Compasses.

The Compasses. [No. 59]

Mark well the Compasses! Their use you see
In giving just proportions, to insure
Beauty and Strength to Fabrics that endure
When they who rear’d them can no longer be
Heedful of praise or blame from those who live. 5
Then let us learn to keep our Actions so
Within due Compass, that when we too go
To join “the great majority,” and give
A strict account of all our labours here,
We need not fear the Great All-Seeing Eye, 10
But feel that it is happiness to die,
And enter the Grand Lodge where sorrow ne’er
Shall mar our perfect Bliss. Brothers! If Just,
Safely in the Most High we may repose our Trust.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887