The world may rail at Masonry,
And scoff at Square and Line,
We'll follow with complacency
The Master's great Design.
A king can make a gartered Knight
And breathe away another;
But he, with all his skill and might,
Can never make a Brother.
This power alone, thou Mystic Art,
Freemasonry, is thine:
The power to tame the savage heart
With brother-love divine!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
And scoff at Square and Line,
We'll follow with complacency
The Master's great Design.
A king can make a gartered Knight
And breathe away another;
But he, with all his skill and might,
Can never make a Brother.
This power alone, thou Mystic Art,
Freemasonry, is thine:
The power to tame the savage heart
With brother-love divine!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton