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Southland Times, Issue 1191, 4 January 1870, Page 3

THE LEVEL AND THE SQUABS. by bbo. bob. ikoßßis, x. *. We meet npon the Lerel and we part upom the Square — What words of precious meaning those word* Masonic are: - V . " r Come let us contemplate them-4hey are worthy of our thought-*-With the highest and the lowest, and the rarest they are fraught. We meet upon the Letel, though from ererf station come. The Monarch from the palace and the poor matt from his home; for the one must leaf e his dfadem outside the . Masons 1 door, And the other finds his true respect upon the Checkered floor. We part upon the Square, for the world must hate its due; We mingle with its multitude— a cold unfriendly crew; But the influence of our gatherings in memory is green, And we long, upon the Letel, to renew the happy icenei ' There's a itorti vbheto dJI ate tqidl— we art hurrying towards it fast— We shall meet upon the Letel there, when the gates of death are passed ; We shallitand before the Orient, and Master will be there. To try the blocks we offer by his own unerring Square. We shall meet upon the Letel there) but metet thence depart There's a Mansion— 'tis all ready for each zealous* faithful heart i— There's a Mansion and a welcome, and a multitude is there, Who hate met upon the Letel» and been tried upon the Square. Let us meet upon the Letel, then, while laboring patient here — Lst us meet and let us labor, tho* the labor seem MTere: . - . Already in the western sky the signs bid tit jpre* pare, To gather up oar working tools and part upon theSquarev Hands around, ye faithful Masons) form the bright fraternal chain, We part upon the Square below to meet in Heaten again ; — Oh, what words of precious meaning the wordt Masonic are— Wl MMT TJPOK TSI HTM. iKD WJ TABI VfOlt tHiequAsl.