MASONIC LODGE AT TARBOLTON. - The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. / With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham - 360 - Robert Burns; Allan Cunningham

TO THE MEN AND BRETHREN IMPROMPTU.

MASONIC LODGE AT TARBOLTON.

Within your dear mansion may wayward contention
Or withering envy ne’er enter:
May secrecy round be the mystical bound,
And brotherly love be the centre.

Edinburgh, 23 August, 1787.

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