The Masonic Press, No. III.

The Masonic Press, No. III. [No. 91]

There yet are Lodges where no Magazine
Or good Masonic Book, to teach Mankind
What Was, and Is, and Might Be, you can find.
Among such Brothers, never can be seen
The genuine working of Freemasonry. 5
They stumble on through some Masonic Rite,
Shorn of its Beauty; and their chief delight
Seems in the Banquet. Wisdom, Charity,
All that ennobles Man, they only deem
Are things to prate of, not to make their own. 10
The seeds of Masonry have there been sown
On barren ground: their Life is but a Dream.
There needs the Light of the Masonic Press
Such cells of Darkness to Illume and Bless.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887