Freemasonry—Introduction

Freemasonry—Introduction, No. II. [No. 2]

And if my feeble lyre should cause one Man
To elevate his vision; if it helps to warm
One frozen mind to life; if it shows the plan
Of Masonry to be no useless maze
To puzzle fools, or merely to amuse 5
Their idle hours; if it give higher views
Of our old Craft to any, in those days
Of full and free inquiry; most of all,
If it should aid in causing us to live
Those holy precepts Masonry doth give 10
To all her children; if it help to call
One laggard Mason to his work again,—
Those simple Sonnets are not sung in vain.

by George Markham Tweddell  1st published 1887