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; t And this night , by express invitation , I go to the feast of St . John , Let the gods q ^ And strum o ' er a song as they can . " Our Brother Charles Dibdin , too , must needs bring us in connection with some of the aforesaid classical personages thus , — -
u The sun ' s a Freemaso Vinage , ei ^ Then from labour at rest , At his lodge in the west , Takes with good Brother Neptune a glass on his way . " As we have had goddesses visitors to our Lodges , it is quite right we should have some chronicle of a god ' s honouring us with his presence y in a cantata we are told /
" Once on the earth immortal Jove Descended from the re To seek the virtues , arid to find Their estimation ' mongst mankind . '' He sought the court and . the cottage , but all to no purpose , and the poet intimates that lie might have continued to do so for any amount of time but that he chanced to light on Morality , " bright virtue ' s queen "—and it is somewhat strange that all the ladies of the upper world appear to be Masons—she took him to a Lodge where
"He heard their lectures , saw their glee , " and was very much pleased with it . Urania seems to have been a very much desired visitor in some Lodges , for in an anonymous ode we find her thus apostrophized , — u Urania , hail ! to thee we sing , And all with pleasure own the lay ; Come ! from thy sacred fountain spring , To gladden free-born sons of day ; 0 , still attend our meetings here ,
With peace serene , and joy sincere !" Not content with making her a kind of supernatural Moses and Son , living in a fountain and undertaking to clothe the Masons , we have her invited under another character , with a musical welcome , perhaps the old fashioned musical honours before " For he ' s a jolly good fellow " came into fashion . Be that as it may , preparation was made for her , and the brethren had to-
u Wake the lute and quiv ' ring strings , Mystic truth Urania brings . Friendly visitant , to thee We owe the depths of Masonry ; Fairest of the virgin choir , Warbling to the golden lyre , Welcome ! here thy arts prevail . Hail ! divine Urania , hail !" Before closing this part of our subject , we hare much pleasure in
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Songb^
; t And this night , by express invitation , I go to the feast of St . John , Let the gods q ^ And strum o ' er a song as they can . " Our Brother Charles Dibdin , too , must needs bring us in connection with some of the aforesaid classical personages thus , — -
u The sun ' s a Freemaso Vinage , ei ^ Then from labour at rest , At his lodge in the west , Takes with good Brother Neptune a glass on his way . " As we have had goddesses visitors to our Lodges , it is quite right we should have some chronicle of a god ' s honouring us with his presence y in a cantata we are told /
" Once on the earth immortal Jove Descended from the re To seek the virtues , arid to find Their estimation ' mongst mankind . '' He sought the court and . the cottage , but all to no purpose , and the poet intimates that lie might have continued to do so for any amount of time but that he chanced to light on Morality , " bright virtue ' s queen "—and it is somewhat strange that all the ladies of the upper world appear to be Masons—she took him to a Lodge where
"He heard their lectures , saw their glee , " and was very much pleased with it . Urania seems to have been a very much desired visitor in some Lodges , for in an anonymous ode we find her thus apostrophized , — u Urania , hail ! to thee we sing , And all with pleasure own the lay ; Come ! from thy sacred fountain spring , To gladden free-born sons of day ; 0 , still attend our meetings here ,
With peace serene , and joy sincere !" Not content with making her a kind of supernatural Moses and Son , living in a fountain and undertaking to clothe the Masons , we have her invited under another character , with a musical welcome , perhaps the old fashioned musical honours before " For he ' s a jolly good fellow " came into fashion . Be that as it may , preparation was made for her , and the brethren had to-
u Wake the lute and quiv ' ring strings , Mystic truth Urania brings . Friendly visitant , to thee We owe the depths of Masonry ; Fairest of the virgin choir , Warbling to the golden lyre , Welcome ! here thy arts prevail . Hail ! divine Urania , hail !" Before closing this part of our subject , we hare much pleasure in