"The Canongate Kilwinning."

"THE CANONGATE KILWINNING . "

LYE A MASONIC A .

Composed for the Election Meeting and Festival of St . John the Baptist , 20 th June , 1 SG 5 . "Words hy Br . ANTHONY OSE \ T , HAVE , Poet-Laureate of Lodge Canongate Kilwinning and K . W . M . Lodge St . Stephen . Music hy Br . JOSEPH EnswoiiXir , J ? oefc-Laureate of Lodge Bine . -FRATERNALLY DEDICATED TO BE . THOMAS DEYBKOTJGII , P . M . LODGE CANO . VGATE KILWINNING .

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drink . The mo - ther of great men , Toast , toast her yet a - gain . She ' s p=pp^P^#:pig=s^^^^^^g ° "** wor - thy of our boast , what - ev - er o - there think ; Her glo - ry shines with ^ Rallent . ^ a tempo . zf ^ £ 5 ? CI 3 5 ± Z ^ ^ ^ ¦

y = Z ^ == .== g = == T ^ = s == Z = S ^ ===== == ' d ~^ 3 g^E^^^^^^^^^a^^^^^^^^^^s un -. di - mi - nish'd ray , As it shone on her bright , her na - tal day . Let us U % % -X-fr-i—is 1 — ? r—j *» I -j mdrink , then , bro - tiers , drink , Let us drink , then , bro-thers , chink , To the Cau-on-gatc Kil-win-ning a - gain . llepeat in Chorus .

Let them boast of King and Prince , —What of them ? Upon her roll an Emp ' ror ' s name appears . While Dukes and Lords , in turns , Have Masters been ; and Burns Was her Bard—Can others claim With these to be her peers ? Uiirivall'd in her children ' s fame she gleams , And still unsullied glow her natal beams . So let us drink , Brothers , drink , To the Canongate Kilwinning again .

While the great All-Seeing Eye shines aloft , By the Square and Compass keeping faithful watch O'er the flower of love , Her sons shall constant prove To their trust where ' er they rove . Their finger on the Lodge ' s latch , To ope' the portals to the good and true ; But our niyst ' ries screening from the cowan ' s view . So let us drink , Brothers , drink , To the Canongate Kilwinning again .

"The Canongate Kilwinning."

THEMYSTEEY OUFREEMASONEY . —Freemasonry is mysterious , because it is an admitted anomaly in the history of the earth . Without territorial possessions—without any other coercing power than that of morality and virtue , it lias survived the wreck of mighty empires , and resisted the destroying hand of time . Contrast the history of Freemasonry with the history of the heathen and Jewish nations , and what is the result ? The JewsGod ' s favoured peopleinto whose custodMasonry was

, , y first committed , where are they now ? A race of wanderers scattered over the face of tbe globe ! Babylon , in her day the queen of nations , fallen , never to rise again 1 Egypt , with her kings and philosophers , classic Greece , and imperial Rome , we now find but occupying their place in the history of the world . But Masonry is an institution sui generis . It exists solely of itself , and eclipses all other institutions or orders in the world , which

ever have been , are , or ever shall be , Christianity alone excepted . The numerous attempts which have been made at different periods to expose it to public derision , and destroy its usefulness , have all signally failed . Every such attack has produced an effect contrary to the wishes and anticipations of its projectors . Like Gray's virtuous peasant" It keeps the noiseless tenor of its way , "

and rejoices in the unsullied happiness of doing good . Masonry may , in a word , be ennobled , enlarged , exalted , and purified ; hut , being stamped with the seal of immortality , she can never te annihilated . —The Craftsman ( Canada ) . ONE WHO OOGIIT NOT TO BE A FREEMASON . —A parsimonious man , one of illiberal ideas , destitute of the nobler impulses , is

"The Canongate Kilwinning."

utterly unfit to make a Freemason . AVe may improve him , but in so doing we will have wasted more time on him than his services to us will be worth , endangered the harmony of the Order , and imposed a clog on its mission of charity . A man of such disposition is in dread of'coniing to want , and thinking our Institution offers him indemnity against such a contingency , he seeks connection with us for that sole purpose . He doesn't join to do good to othersbut to have them do good for him . He

, contributes no more to the charities enjoined upon all good Masons than the strictest construction of Masonic law compels him , and then so grudgingly that the recipient-, if of a sensitive nature , had rather be spared the infliction . —National Freemason . THE Dome OITOEU . —Tho Doric , which ia plain and natural ,

is tho most auciont , and was invented by tho Greeks . Its column is eight diameters high , and has seldom any ornaments on base or capital oxeopt mouldings ; though tho friozo is distinguished , by triglyphs and metopes , and tviglyphs compose tho ornament of tho frieze . Tho solid composition of this Order gives it a preference in structures whore strength and a noble simplicity aro chiefly required . Tho Doric is tho best proportioned of all tho Orders . The several parts of which it is composed aro founded

on tho natural position of solid bodies . In its first invention it was moro simple than in its present state . In after times , whon it began to be adorned , it gained tho name of Doric ; for when it was constructed in its primitive anel solid form , tho name of Tuscan was conferred on it . Hones , tho Tuscan precedes tho Doric in rank on account of its resemblance to that pillar in its original state . Masonic Review .