Give you a sign of a brotherhood.

Oh, I like to meet them, every one,

From the Daughter of Peace to a Son of a Gun.

But I can’t quite feel the same delight

As I used to when, some summer night,

I’d take a few of the high degrees

In the O. K. K. B. W. P’s.

We had no lodge-room with locks and bars

—Our hall was the dome ’neath the winking

stars;