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Today in Masonic History we present The Pillars of the Porch by Rob Morris.
The Old is better: is it not the planÂ
By which the Wise, in by-gone days, contrivedÂ
To bind in willing fetters man to man,Â
And strangers in a sacred nearness lived?Â
Is there in modern wisdom aught like thatÂ
Which, midst the blood and carnage of the plain,Â
Can calm man's fury, mitigate his hate,Â
And join disrupted friends in love again?Â
No! for three thousand years the smiles of Heaven,Â
Smiles on whose sunbeams comes unmeasured joy,Â
To this thrice-honored Cement have been given,Â
This Bond, this Covenant, this sacred Tie.Â
It comes to us full laden from the tombÂ
A countless host conspire to name its worth,Â
Who sweetly sleep beneath th' Acacia's bloomÂ
And there is naught like Masonry on earth.Â
Then guard the venerable relic wellÂ
Protect it, Masters, from th' unholy handÂ
See that its emblems the same lessons tellÂ
Sublime through every age and every landÂ
Be not a line erased the pen that drewÂ
These matchless tracings was the Pen Divine âÂ
Infinite Wisdom best for mortals knew âÂ
God will preserve intact the Grand Design.