Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, Bände 60-62

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Grand Lodge, 1920

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Seite 419 - You admit that it is not in the power of any man or body of men to make innovations in the body of Masonry.
Seite 221 - For none return from those quiet shores, Who cross with the boatman cold and pale ; We hear the dip of the golden oars, And catch a gleam of the snowy sail ; And lo ! they have passed from our yearning heart, They cross the stream and are gone for aye. We may not sunder the veil apart That hides from' our vision the gates of day...
Seite 278 - The builder lifted his old, gray head — 'Good friend; in the path I have come," he said, 'There followeth after me to-day, A youth whose feet must pass this way. This chasm...
Seite 100 - THE longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days.
Seite 373 - And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Seite 95 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long where thou art lying Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To tell the world their worth...
Seite 290 - Only candidates may know, that no master should take an apprentice, unless he has sufficient employment for him, and unless he be a perfect youth, having no maim or defect in his body, that may render him incapable of learning the art, of serving his master's lord, and of being made a brother...
Seite 98 - He scarce had need to doff his pride or slough the dross of Earth — E'en as he trod that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth.
Seite 237 - There the tears of earth are dried ; There its hidden things are clear ; There the work of life is tried By a juster Judge than here. FATHER, in Thy gracious keeping Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.
Seite 51 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...

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