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their laurels entwined with acacia to raise this hymn to the glory of Masonry. — ‘Hail
sacred Masonry! Great source of human happiness and perfection. Thou makest us sit
down with kings and princes, Thou exalteth him that is low, and abaseth him that is
high. If we forget thee, 0 Masonry! let our right hands forget their cunning. If we do
not remember thee, let our tongues cleave to the roof of our mouth, if we prefer not
Masonry above our chief joy. 0 thou mysterious divinity of the square and compass!
delighting in the holy lodge of St. John, by thy peculiar care thou art worshipped in a
thousand temples, the work of the faithful builders. Hail, sacred Masonry! great source
of human happiness and perfection.” Perhaps a little extravagant by our modern way
of thinking but, reading between the lines, we are exalted from the highest to the
lowest, from the right hand to the tongue. (History of the Lodge of Edinburgh No. 1
Page 356, by Murray Lyon).

P.J.D. October 1982