ON THE DEATH OF A MASONIC GRAND SACHEM

This day we unite

And all Brethren invite

To honour a man of our nation;

Who, honest as brave,

Is gone to his grave

And takes an unchangeable station.

In our subject we view

( To Liberty true )

The officer firm in all danger;

Who stood to his post

At the head of a host

His country to save, and avenge her.

By compass and square

This artisan rare

Defeated all foreign invasion,

Then returned to his farm

When no longer alarm

Distracted the mind of the nation.

In all that he did,

In all that he said

The bliss of mankind was intended;—

He rose for their good,

To support them he stood,

And Liberty ever defended.

The foundation he laid,

And the fabric he made

No mason but he could pretend to;

It will stand, we foresee,

‘ Till that era shall be

When the globe of the world there's an end to.

So, fame to the man

Who the building began,

Whose model all nations will take

When kingdoms are fled,

Standing armies are dead,

And monarchs — no longer awake.