Poetry and Art

Sonnet to Masonry

 By Dr. Perfect - 4th Nov, 1704

HAIL, mystic Science! seraph maid!

Imperial beam of light!

In robes of sacred Truth array’d,

Morality’s delight.

Salathiel:

Angel with the eye of flame,

Known to mortals is thy name;

Oft to them didst thou unfold

Wond'rous things in days of old.

He that hath ears to hear,

May listen now,

While I shall tell, in mystic words indeed,

Of a good husbandman who took his seed

And went to sow.

by Manley Hopkins, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne

“A little learning is a dangerous thing:

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

HERE’s an old Pope-ish legend going,

About the right of knowing,

By R. J. McLauchlin (1925)

Between the Compasses' twain points, the

Craftsman's toil is set;

'Tis his for work a lifetime through, nor ever

to forget,

That, whatsoever he fashions and whate'er his