Beauty, No. II

Beauty, No. II. [No. 36]

If Beauty lives not in our Brother’s Mind,
He ne’er can feel the charms of Masonry.
He who loves Beauty truly, holds in fee
The Universe around him: he can find
Good things in all things which the Great Architect 5
Has made, that Man can use or look upon.
E’en all the Evils of the ages gone,
And of the times we live in, he sees fleck’d
With much Good. For Evils—while they spring
From Disobedience to the unchanging Laws 10
Wisely laid down for All by the First Cause—
In time work their own Cure, and help to bring
About the banishment of Error hence,
And teach the Rebel, Man, Obedience.

By George Markham Tweddell 1st published 1887