The Enlightened Men

by Bro. Carl W. Mason 

(from The Virginia Masonic Journal, Richmond, Va., March, 1916)

A Mason’s hand is a hand that helps, 

That lifts the fallen one,

That comes, in need, with a kindly deed

To him whose strength is gone.

 

A Mason’s heart is a heart that loves

The best that is good and true

He stands the friend, his best to lend,

Under his banner blue.

 

A Mason’s eye is an eye that smiles

And his a cheering voice;

He spreads the light, dispels the night

And makes the world rejoice.

 

Over the earth in stranger lands,

Where distant peoples dwell,

The eye, the grip, the life, the lip,

Of love unchanging tell.