Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Colorado of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, Volumes 44-46

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Grand Lodge, 1904
 

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Page 61 - It singeth low in every heart, We hear it each and all — A song of those who answer not, However we may call ; They throng the silence of the breast, We see them as of yore — The kind, the brave, the true, the sweet Who walk with us no more.
Page 215 - ... punishable by imprisonment for not more than three years, or by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars, or both.
Page 61 - It bids us do the work that they laid down; Take up the song, where they broke off the strain: So, journeying till we reach the heavenly town Where are laid up our treasures...
Page 88 - Councils of Royal and Select Masters of the several States and Territories of the United States...
Page 60 - Farewell ! A little time, and we Who knew thee well, and loved thee here, One after one shall follow thee, As pilgrims through the gate of fear, Which opens on eternity. Yet shall we cherish not the less All that is left our hearts meanwhile ; The memory of thy loveliness Shall round our weary pathway smile, Like moonlight when the sun has set, A sweet and tender radiance yet.
Page 61 - Tis hard to take the burden up When these have laid it down ; They brightened all the joy of life, They softened every frown ; But, oh, 'tis good to think of them When we are troubled sore! Thanks be to God that such have been, Although they are no more.
Page 61 - tis good to think of them, When we are troubled sore ! Thanks be to God that such have been, Though they are here no more ! More homelike seems the vast unknown, Since they have entered there ; To follow them were not so hard, Wherever they may fare...
Page 142 - Give us Men — I say again, Give us Men! Give us Men! Strong and stalwart ones; Men whom highest hope inspires, Men whom purest honor fires, Men who trample self beneath them, Men who make their country wreathe them As her noble sons, Worthy of their sires; Men who never shame their mothers, Men who never fail their brothers, True, however false are others; Give us Men — I say again, Give us Men!
Page 279 - ... nobly born, or a gentleman of the best fashion, or some eminent scholar, or some curious architect, or other artist, descended of honest parents, and who is of singular great merit in the opinion of the lodges.
Page 60 - Servant of God, well done ! They serve God well, Who serve his creatures: when the funeral bell Tolls for the dead, there's nothing left of all That decks the scutcheon and the velvet pall Save this. The coronet is empty show : The strength and loveliness are hid below: The shifting wealth to others hath accrued: And learning cheers not the grave's solitude : What's DONE, is what remains! Ah, blessed they Who leave completed tasks of love to stay And answer mutely for them, being dead, Life was not...

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