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THE LAMB SKIN
- It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,
- There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,
- Tho of all my possessions, there's none can compare,
- With that white leather apron, which all Masons wear.
- As a young lad I wondered just what it all meant,
- When Dad hustled around, and so much time was spent
- On shaving and dressing and looking just right,
- Until Mother would say: "It's the Masons tonight."
- And some winter nights she said: "What makes you go,
- Way up there tonight thru the sleet and the snow,
- You see the same things every month of the year."
- Then Dad would reply: "Yes, I know it, my dear."
- Forty years I have seen the same things, it is true.
- And though they are old, they always seem new,
- For the hands that I clasp, and the friends that I greet,
- Seem a little bit closer each time that we meet."
- Years later I stood at that very same door,
- With good men and true who had entered before,
- I knelt at the alter, and there I was taught
- That virtue and honor can never be bought.
- That the spotless white lambskin all Masons revere,
- If worthily worn grows more precious each year,
- That service to others brings blessings untold,
- That man may be poor tho surrounded by gold.
- I learned that true brotherhood flourishes there,
- That enmities fade 'neath the compass and square,
- That wealth and position are all thrust aside,
- As there on the level men meet and abide.
- So, honor the lambskin, may it always remain
- Forever unblemished, and free from all stain,
- And when we are called to the Great Father's love,
- May we all take our place in that Lodge up above.
By Brother Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959)