True Brotherhood.

True Brotherhood. [No. 64]

Wrong thou no man; but, if ’tis in thy power,
Shield all from Injury: but, more than all,
Be every ready at a Mason’s call,
To render all thy Aid, in Sorrow’s hour.
Are we not bound in holy Brotherhood, 5
(Despite of Colour, Politics, or Creed,)
To serve each other in the hour of Need,
So long we prove worthy? “Of One Blood”
God made “all Nations of Men,” wherever they
May “dwell on all the face o’ the Earth,”—as we 10
Find bravely taught by eloquent PAUL, when he
Undaunted stood on Mar’s Hill, ‘midst the bray
Of Athen’s angry Sons! For all time,
Masons are Brothers, spite of Creed or Clime.

by George Markham Tweddell 1st published c 1887