To gain these secrets and these signs to know;

Might question still if all the truth we found,

And firmly stood upon the certain ground;

We might our title to the mystery dread,

And fear we drank not at the river-head.


Griggs and Gregorians here their meetings hold,

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Convivial sects, and Bucks alert and bold:

A kind of Masons, but without their sign;