Come all you Free-Masons that dwell all round the globe, That wear the badge of innocence, I mean the Royal (illegible text)e; Which Noah he did wear In the Ark wherein he stood, When the world was destroy'd By a deluge of flood.
O Noah he was righteous in the sight of the Lord, He loved a Free Mason that kept the sacred word; He built up the Ark and he planted the first vine, And his soul, like an angel, in heaven doth shine.
O when I think of Moses, it makes so to blussh. It was on the Mount of (illegible text)eb where I saw the burning bush; My staff I threw down. and my shoes I cast away; And I'll wander like a pilgrim until my dying day.
'Twas once I was blind, and could not see the light, It was unto Jerusalem, it was there I took my flight; They led me like a pilgrim through a wilderness of care, You may see by the sign and the badge that I wear.
O never will I hear a poor orphan to cry. No nor yet a poor virgin, until the day I die, Now like the restless Jews That wander the world round, But (illegible text) knock at the door were truth is to be found.
So now against the Turks and the Infidels we'll fight, To let the wondering world know that we are in the right; For in heaven there's a Lodge, and St. Peter keeps the door; And none can enter there but those that are pure.
Divider from 'The Linnet', a chapbook printed in Falkirk in 1819
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