Recollection.

And once again , m solemn guise , Those angel faces shine , Which shed on us such fragrant presence , Such tenderness all divine . Yes , the trysting-place we see again , Amid lades of forest green

g , We are looking o ' er a fair champaign , We wander o ' er hill and dene ; A laughing group is gather'd there , Around yon fairy ring , We hear the cheery refrain Melodious voices sing .

0 pleasant May-day of old faces , 0 gathering blithe ancl gay , How , midst cold doubts and sadder fears , You take us far away ; We pause—for rustling fairy forms Entrance our spell-bound sight , And fancy makes us yet rejoice With its phantoms soft and bri ght .

Yet all are gone AVIIO once could shed Such grace on loA'e and life , Fair faces UOAV are with the dead , Which sooth'd each care and strife ; We listen , but no longer IIOAV , That sih'ery voice is heard , Which in frolic jest , or pleasant coiiA'et se , Our inmost feelings stirred .

Time may bring us yet its sadness , And decrepit age may thiwv On us its chilling palsy , Its flakes of drifting snow ; But Recollection still can give , To many a bye-gone past , Those sympathies which neA'er die , Those links which ever last .

So thus to-day , mid weary hours , As age draAvs on apace , Mid jaded hearts and poignant sighs , And dreams of faded grace , Some Recollection of the past , And its gracious loving Avays , Will throw around our daily strife The illusions of old days , A . P . A . AV

Early History Of American Freemasonry, Once More.

EARLY HISTORY OF AMERICAN FREEMASONRY , ONCE MORE .

BY BRO . JACOB NORTON " . { Continued from page 279 . . J The above sli p is Pelhani ' s penmanship . It proves that no quarterly meetings Avere

held in Boston before 1750 . But Avh y Pelham wrote the slip puzzled me . When I perused the record , the reason became plain . The slip was penned as a memorandum to be inserted into the record . The first 12 pages of the record reads like a chronicle ; the dates are placed

on the margin . At the bottom of the 12 th page , may be seen the lower paragraph , "N . B . " etc . The next page is written in a regular lodge record style , and there I found recorded that part of the upper paragraph , viz ., the regulation for the

Committee of Charity when to meet ; the preface ancl finishing parts are omitted . I then came to the conclusion , that this memorandum ivas AArritten Avith a design to be put into the record . It also proves that on the 25 th of September , 1751 , the tAvelfth page of the record Avas not finished .

There is also a list of the members of the lodge from 1733 to August 1751 . The list is printed Avith Bro . Gardner ' s oration ; likoAvise a list of the Master Masons' Lodge Members from 1738 . To the names of the

first are appended the dates of their initia . tion , or of joining the lodge . Those AVIIO were made in the lodge have a mark placed beside their names . Those Avho Avere initiated elsewhere are without that peculiar mark . The Master Masons' list has the same

marks to denote those that Avere raised there . Three names in each list ( different names ) are minus of the Christian name . Assisted by the Hon . Dr . N . B . Shurtleff , Avith the aid of a perpetual almanack of his construction , we found ( on page 105 of Bro . Gardner ' s addressAvhere the list

, begins ) twenty-four dates of initiations from August 3 rd , 1733 , to May 31 st , 1736 . Out of those tAventy-four dates ten of them Avere not regular lodge nig hts . On February the 11 th , 1749 ( old sty le ) three initiations are marked on the list , but the

almanack revealed that February 11 th Avas on Sunday . Recently I found that in 1736 there Avere two members in the lodge whose names do not appear on the list . These several discrepancies , led me to suspect that Pelham never could have copied

those names from pre-existing records , but designed those lists for the purpose of working the names and dates into the records which he intended to make for those lodges , So impressed was I with