English poem
BALLAD. (In all your dealings take good care)
by Anonymous
In all your dealings take good care, Instructed by the friendly square, To be true, upright, just, and fair, And thou a fellow-craft shalt be:
The level so must poise thy mind, That satisfaction thou shalt find, When to another fortune's kind:— And that's the drift of masonry.
The compass t'other two compounds, And says, though anger'd on just grounds, Keep all your passions within bounds, And thou a fellow-craft shalt be.
Thus, symbols of our order are The compass, level, and the square; Which teach us to be just and fair: And that's the drift of masonry.
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