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GENERAL NEWS
ISSUE NO.12 SPRING 2024 | WEST KENT NEWS
KEYBOARDISTS
THE LEVEL AND THE SQUARE
REQUIRED!
BY THE EMINENT MASONIC POET - ROB MORRIS
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By Adrian Grant
Keeping live music in our
assemblies becomes an even
greater challenge as time goes
on.
We need assistance from you.
If you only have a basic ability it
does not matter, even if you only
played as a schoolboy. We are
not looking for virtuosos, we are
looking for people who are willing
to give this a try and we will help
you every step of the way.
Bernard, our Provincial Grand
Organist, will be pleased to
informally teach what is needed,
and more importantly, which
buttons to press!!
emailing
Or
Adrian
Grant
by
aggrant68@gmail.com
What word of precious meaning
those words Masonic are,
Come let us contemplate them,
they are worthy of our thought,
With the highest and the lowest
and the rarest they are fraught.
We meet upon the level, though
from every station come,
The king from out his palace, and
the poor man from his home;
For the one must leave his
diadem outside the mason's
door,
And the other finds his true
respect upon the chequered
floor.
We part upon the Square, for the
world must have its due,
We mingle with its multitude, a
cold unfriendly crew;
But
the
influence
of
our
gatherings in memory is green,
And we long upon the level to
renew the happy scene.
Contact:
Bernard
Tilley
by
btatomic@aol.com
We meet upon the level and we
part upon the square.
emailing
There's a world where all are
equal—we are hurrying towards it
fast,
We shall meet upon the level
there, when the gates of death
are passed,
We shall stand before the Orient,
and our Master will be there,
To try the blocks we offer by his
own unerring Square.
We shall meet upon the level
there, but never thence depart,
There's a mansion—tis all ready
for each trusting faithful heart,
There's a mansion and a welcome,
and a multitude is there
Who have met upon the level, and
been tried upon the square.
Let us meet upon the level then,
while laboring patient here,
Let us meet and let us labor,
though the labor seem severe,
Already in the western sky the
signs bid us prepare
To gather up our working tools,
and part upon the square.
Hands round, ye faithful masons,
form the bright fraternal chain,
We part upon the square below to
meet in heaven again,
Oh what words of precious
meaning those words masonic are
—
"We meet upon the level, and we
part upon the square,"