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FREE-MASONS SONGS. 257
The ANTHEM.
I.
Rant "us, kind heav’n, what we requeft ;
In mafonry let us be bleft :
Direft us to that happy place
Where Friendfhip fmiles in ev’ry face ;
Where Freedom and fweet Innocence
Enlarge the mind, and cheer the fenfe.
Enlarge the mind, &c.
II.
Where fcepter’d Realbn from her throne
Surveys the lodge, and makes us one ;
And Harmony’s delightful fway
For ever Iheds ambrofial day ;
Where we blels’d Eden’s pleafure tafte,
Whilft balmy joys are our repaft.
Whift balmy joys, 8tc.
III. .
No prying eye can view, us here,
Or fool or knave difturb our cheer :
Our well-form’d laws let mankind free.
And give relief to mifery.
The poor, opprefs’d with wo and grief,
Gain from our bounteous hands relief.
Gain from our bounteous, &c.
IVv
Our lodge the focial virtues grace,
And wifdom’s rules we fondly trace ;
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