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 6 THE FREE MASON’S SONG. COME let us prepare, we brothers that are assembled on merry occasion; Let’s drink, laugh and sing, our wine has a spring, here’s a health to an accepted Mason.

The world is in pain our secrets to gain, and still let them wonder and gaze on; They ne er can divine the word or the sign of a free and an accepted Mason.

Tis this and ’tis that, they cannot tell what, why so many great men of the nation Should aprons put on, to make themselves one with a free and an accepted Mason.

Great Kings, Dukes, and Lords, have laid by their swords, our mystery to put a good grace on, And ne’er been asham'd to hear themselves nam'd with a free and an accepted Mason.

Still firm to our trust, in friendship we’re just, our actions we guide by our reason, By observing this rule, the passions move cool of a free and an accepted Mason

All idle debate about church or state, the springs of impiety and treason, These raisers of strife ne’er ruffle the life of a free and an accepted Mason.