Master Mason's Poem
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
Tho' 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 his 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 counsel whispers in
my ear
An warns of 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.
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