"Last Night I Knelt Where Hiram Knelt" 

Last night I knelt where Hiram knelt

     And took an obligation

Today I'm closer to my God,

     And I'm a Master Mason.

 To' heretofore my fellow men

     Seemed each one like the other,

Today I search each one apart;

      I'm looking for "My Brother."

 And, as I feel this friendly grip,

      It fills my heart with pride;

I know that while I'm on the square

       That he is on my side.

 His footsteps on my errand go

       If I should such require;

His prayers will plead in my behalf

       If I should so desire.

 My words are safe within his breast

       As though within my own;

His hand forever at my back

       To help me safely home.

 Good Council whispers in my ear

       And warns at any danger;

By square and compass, Brother now!

       Who once would call me stranger.

 I might have lived a moral life

        And risen to distinctions

Without my Brother's helping hand

        And fellowship of Masons.

 But God, who knows how hard it is

        To resist life's temptations,

Knows why I knelt where Hiram knelt

         And took that obligation.