But science dawning in his mind,
The quarry he explores;
Industry and the Arts combined

Improved all nature's stores:

Thus walls were built, and houses rear'dNo storms nor tempests now are fear'd Within his well-framed doors.

When stately palaces arise,

When columns grace the hall,

When towers and spires salute the skies,

We owe to Masons all:

Nor buildings only do they give,

But teach men how within to live,
And yield to Reason's call.

All party quarrels they detest;
For Virtue and the Arts,

Lodged in each true Freemason's breast,

Unite and rule their hearts:

By these, while Masons square their minds, The state no better subjects finds,

None act more upright parts.

When Bucks and Albions are forgot,
Freemasons will remain ;

Mushrooms, each day, spring up and rot,

While oaks stretch o'er the plain :
Let others quarrel, rant, and roar;
Their noisy revels when no more,
Still Masonry shall reign.

Our leathern aprons we compare
With garters red and blue;
Princes and Kings our brothers are,

While they our rules pursue:

Then drink success and health to all
The Craft around this earthly ball;
May Brethren still prove true!

In all your dealings take good care,
Instructed by the friendly square,
To be true, upright, just, and fair,

And thou a Fellow-craft shalt be.

The level so must poise thy mind,
That satisfaction thou shalt find,
When to another Fortune's kind:

And that's the drift of Masonry.

The compass t'other two compounds,
And says, though anger'd on just grounds,
Keep all your passions within bounds,

And thou a Fellow-craft shalt be.

Thus symbols of our Order are
The compass, level, and the square;
Which teach us to be just and fair:
And that's the drift of Masonry.

CHAPTER XII.

THE FIVE ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE.

"First unadorn'd,

And nobly plain, the manly Doric rose;
The Ionic then, with decent matron grace,

Her airy pillar heaved; luxuriant, last,

The rich Corinthian spread her wanton wreath."

ASSOCIATED as the symbolic degrees are with the building of the House of God at Jerusalem, and our allegorical instruction in the tools used by operative Masons, our Lectures, from the earliest time, have ever required some explanation of the different styles of Architecture.

Architecture is sometimes defined to be the art of building, and we find the Greek term ȧрXITÉкTwv (architectōn) is employed by Herodotus as the word Architect is now. He says, Rhocus, a Samian, was the architectōn of the great Temple of Samos (built B. c. 986). Leaving out of our inquiry the earlier constructions, such mounds of earth as that of Alyattes or of Silbury Hill, or those remarkable monuments like Stonehenge, we briefly notice the characteristics that distinguish the different styles of Architecture.

Egyptian architecture is so purely monumental or historical as to be of little use to the student. Presuming that the pyramids are of a date long prior to any other structures now existing, we find at the entrance to the great pyramid a proof that the method of constructing an arch was known to these