Olork of m mystic Seven 
 
 Hnd em muceildNeous Poems 
 
 IRVING B. HAVES, M. D, 
 
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mork of the mystic Seven 
 
 CONCEALING AND REVEALING GEMS 
 FROM THE BORDERLAND OF KNOWLEDGE 
 
 (Uitb d few miscellaneous Poems 
 
 BY 
 
 IRVING B. HAYES, A. B., M. D. 
 
 Prioately Printed for tbe Jimbor 
 
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Copyright, 1897, By Irving B. Hayes 
 
 THE BRYANT PRINTING COMPANY, 
 FLORENCE, MASS. 
 
RESERVED FOR DIAGRAMS 
 
PREFACE TO - WORK OF THE MYSTIC 
 SEVEN " 
 
 "Work of the Mystic Seven" had its origin in a rather 
 unique manner as might be inferred from its perusal. It may 
 not be amiss, therefore, to give a history of the growth and 
 development of the ideas which finally led to its completion. 
 
 In the first place the life and training of the author hail 
 much to do with it as it had also much to do with leading 
 him to a possession of those facts which all ages have counted 
 a priceless heritage never to be revealed. It may be here 
 stated that much can never be revealed and never should be, 
 except to those minds that have proved themselves worthy by 
 the strictest tests, as for example, the interpretations of esoteric 
 writings. 
 
 The mind of the author was never defrauded of its birthright 
 to investigate the truth for itself and was never humbled to 
 submission to the follies of any conventional system. Descended 
 from a long line of New England ancestry, the spirit of inves- 
 tigation with an untrammelled mind was well developed. His 
 earliest conception of deity was that of a goodman that lived 
 in the sky just over a great elm tree, who had made every- 
 thing and everybody. This was somewhat modified when it 
 was told that an older brother had in his youth, after being 
 told that God had made everything, made this sage inquiry, 
 
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"Who made God?" It would appear that the child mind is 
 often quite as much interested in getting at the truth of the 
 first cause as the more adult intellect. There is no doubt also 
 that it is as quickly offended at misrepresentations when once 
 the truth is made known. From that time forward he regarded 
 nature as an unsolved mystery which he determined to investi- 
 gate by every means within reach. The great advancement the 
 pjesent age is making in all directions, was early realized and 
 it was firmly believed that no mystery of nature was too great 
 for man to solve. Perhaps this was a mistake, but it is, 
 nevertheless, not an unpleasant thought. 
 
 After the death of a sister when he was thirteen years of age 
 a more definite determination was formed to apply himself to 
 this investigation ; and then began the plans for a full collegi- 
 ate course of study. At the age of fifteen, accordingly, his 
 father accompanied him to Illinois and placed him under the 
 tuition of an older brother. After two years in that genial part 
 of the country, the long planned collegiate course was begun in 
 the winter of 1879 and 1880, and continued with the usual 
 vicissitudes till its completion in 1883. At that time the ideas 
 of universal principles of nature had already taken definite shape. 
 The conclusion had been reached that among these principles 
 there were harmonious relations and that each was infinite and 
 unlimited by anything. Being different from all else, each 
 principle, when considered, must correspond to an independent 
 interrogative. Finally when once understood it was believed 
 that they would so correlate as to furnish their own proofs. 
 
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A more definite opinion was formed that they were seven in 
 number and had the particular relationship which in a measure 
 is here shown. It was, however, during the following year 
 while pursuing a post-graduate course at the Thayer School 
 of Civil Engineering, that, chancing to glance at the book 
 of Revelations, he became convinced that these principles formed 
 a part of the ancient lore of man. 
 
 Pursuing the study and practice of Civil Engineering till 1886 
 he found himself in New York City, after terminating an engage- 
 ment as computor of triangulations in Albany. It was there he 
 became acquainted with a peculiar genius — a man in middle life 
 who, owing to an accident in early life had lost his hearing 
 and sight except what could be gained by a large magnifying 
 glass that he carried in his hand. An Irish-American, bom a 
 catholic, this man, so confined within himself, had devoted 
 many years to constant study, making his living mainly by 
 writing and public speaking. It is needless to say that his 
 early faith was gone from him, and in its place was much 
 of the philosophy of the present age coupled with advanced 
 knowledge of ancient mysteries. He had spent years in the 
 great libraries of the metropolis and associated with many keen 
 minds. It was through him that the author was led to much 
 of that extra-collegiate literature bearing upon ancient philosophy 
 and into associations of which the multitude know little. 
 
 It was already decided that the profession of Civil Engineering 
 was unsafe as a life work owing to the frequent depressions in 
 financial affairs and it was also decided to follow his brother's 
 
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steps in the study of medicine. This was commenced immedi- 
 ately so that the stay in New Yori< continued most of the 
 time till 1889. Previous to that date it was decided to put 
 these thoughts into definite shape. A few verses were already 
 written that with slight alteration remain in the present work. 
 
 During the next four years, however, his mind was fully 
 employed in the practice of medicine. Having removed to 
 Atlanta, Ga., where a new field and new surroundings were 
 found, the whole matter was in a way likely to be abandoned. 
 But after the change of administration in 1893 disposed of 
 the property that had been acquired in Atlanta and again 
 following the example of his older brother, came back to New 
 England. After visiting the World's Fair and looking about for 
 several months it was finally decided to locate in the town 
 where he at present resides — the home of a free religious society 
 and the Cosmian Hall. It is here that most of the real labor 
 of compiling the present work, has been done. 
 
 The thoughts themselves, however, had received many years 
 of consideration. After entering the broader fields of investiga- 
 tion much of the substance here presented, was developed, no 
 doubt, through reading both ancient and modem literature ; 
 but the seve;i principles remain unchanged, having served in 
 connection with received teachings to unlock many an otherwise 
 closed entrance. 
 
 This work is submitted to those of his friends whom the 
 author may deem advisable as a means of entertainment and in 
 the hope that it may lead on toward the attainment of that 
 
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higher knowledge which is so much desired by all lovers of the 
 truth. It contains much of concealed mystery and for that 
 reason it may be proper to recommend it to some as a diver- 
 sion for the mind. It contains also many practical hints on 
 the philosophy of life which may help the moody and discon- 
 solate to more agreeable ways of thinking and living. While 
 the stand is quite positive on religious topics it is not the pur- 
 pose of the author to antagonize the views or ways of others, 
 well knowing that people derive help in living from various 
 modes of thought. 
 
 It is believed, however, that the ideas here expressed will be 
 found to coincide with the beginnings of every form of worship 
 and not to antagonize the good of any. The form representing 
 an initiation was chosen because of the large number of those 
 ceremonies that have rendered people familiar with such affairs ; 
 but out of deference to no particular order. There is also a 
 more remote reason in the thoughts to be expressed and their 
 ancient history. Without further explanation the author will 
 entrust these lines to those he may deem advisable. 
 
 The Author. 
 
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FABLE OF THE WOLVES 
 
 A pack of wolves upon the plains 
 Long hunted for venison together, 
 
 And each had shared in toil and pains 
 Fatigue and in braving the weather. 
 
 At length they came upon a stag 
 
 Full-grown and both pampered and lusty, 
 
 The chase was hard but none could lag 
 O'er plains that were heated and dusty. 
 
 Now some were foremost in the fray, 
 
 Some barked loud, and some labored bravely ; 
 
 But when the stag was dead one day 
 
 The barkers came up and said gravely : — 
 
 We managed this with care and skill 
 And claim that the carcass is ours. 
 Let those who are not tired still 
 Exert for us all their powers." 
 
 And so one half were kept at bay 
 
 The weary, hungry, and foolish. 
 Some worked and growled with smell for pay, 
 
 But barkers ate stag with a relish. 
 
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 FABLE OF THE WOLVES. 
 
 The hungry lot in vain could whine 
 
 Or lick their dry chops and keep snuffing. 
 
 At last they thought they would combine 
 
 With those who had worked hard for nothings 
 
 So when at last the meat was gone 
 
 And nothing was left worth the smelling, 
 
 The cheated ones combined upon 
 
 Revenge, with keen hunger impelling. 
 
 The growlers and whiners joined as one 
 With those who were faithful but cheated, 
 
 They seized the rogues too full to run 
 And ate up their bodies while heated. 
 
 And now the live ones all were cloyed 
 The barkers all dead and devoured 
 
 They formed a compact to avoid 
 
 All risks both for weak and empowered. 
 
 Whenever deer are captured now 
 Each wolf in the pack gets a ration. 
 
 The laws of hunger wolves allow 
 But men are the fools of creation. 
 
INSTINCT 
 
 Have you seen how the humming bird sips the 
 dew 
 
 From the plum-tree blooms in the lane? 
 How he steadies himself in the air so true 
 While he drinks the sweets they contain ? 
 
 Have you watched little chickens and turkeys 
 drop 
 
 When the mother hen spies a hawk ? 
 And how quickly they scramble to fill their crop 
 When she calls with coaxing cu-cluck ? 
 
 Then spiders weave webs with great skill 
 designed 
 
 Where the flies are surest to go. 
 Thus are cells of the body by instinct combined 
 
 Best arranged for the good they bestow. 
 
 One may ask how it is that all this can be. 
 
 Truths of nature grand and sublime ! 
 Why make sport of our thoughts and with 
 child-like glee 
 
 Hide within our minds all the time? 
 
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INSTINCT. 
 
 Is the problem of instinct too deep to solve 
 While the world is full of its work? 
 
 When a thousand details of our lives involve 
 Traits of mind that must in us lurk? 
 
 From our birth to our death we rehearse a tune 
 
 Played by all who have travelled before. 
 When the cords are well struck what a precious 
 boon 
 
 That inspires our nature to soar ! 
 
 Thus the notes of a bird are a song to him 
 
 That recalls the past of his race, 
 As the legends of old when the past grows dim 
 
 Fill the soul with valor and grace. 
 
 Every trait of the mind of the impulse, sense, 
 
 Life itself is one inherited plan 
 Which we all should protect with a firm 
 defense 
 
 And transmit unmarred if we can. 
 
 For the instinct descends as a trait of mind 
 Though it acts unprompted by thought, 
 
 While it forms but a part of the soul, we find, 
 Breathing life into forms it has wrought. 
 
UNCLE BECK—AN EX-SLAVE 
 
 Bowed down with his threescore years and ten, 
 With the toil of life and the want of age 
 
 Grey bearded and wrinkled, black, his skin 
 But his looks were grave and his manner sage. 
 
 ** Fine day Uncle Beck. How goes the world?" 
 
 ' * Well de times am hard but I scraps along 
 A cobblin* ol' shoes." His thread he twirled 
 
 As he paused to " 'splain why de worl' goes 
 wrong." 
 
 " You see dese 'ere niggers haint got sense, 
 Wid a boss to drive 'em dey works all right. 
 
 But min' I don' say or make pretense 
 For mysel' I likes to be driven quite. 
 
 ** You see dat my masser *fo' de war 
 Was a gemman fine an' he uster spree. 
 
 Well I was his body slave and lor' 
 
 What a time we had 'fo' dey set us free. 
 
 ''Sometimes he come fussin' ravin' 'roun' 
 An' he make tings blue for de niggers sho' 
 
 Sometimes we got lashed and wiped de groun' 
 Den I tell ye tings went a hummin' the'. 
 
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1 6 UNCLE BECK — AN EX-SLAVE. 
 
 De paterole men came 'roun' at night, 
 Alius after a nigger dat stole a ham 
 J tell ye we all kep* out o' sight 
 
 When we heard dose hoofs on de groun' tram* 
 tram'. 
 
 De time o' de wa' come *roun* at las' 
 An' my marser, he was jes' boun' to go 
 Den somehow or other it came to pass 
 Dat he 'sided dis nigger serve as befo*. 
 
 "So off to de wa' we hurried on 
 An' de lark wa' nebber a half so gay, 
 
 We thought we could lick all de Yankees bo'n 
 Befo' breakfast somebody uster say. 
 
 But when we came back de tune wa' changed 
 An' de lark wa' plucked if I know my min'. 
 So den come on freedom. All wa' 'ranged 
 So's to suit de big folks 'cross de line. 
 
 ** Den niggers all got so big a head 
 
 Dat dey thought dey nebber would work no 
 mo' 
 
 But dance ebry night an' lay abed 
 
 An' eat pie an' possum as nebber befo'. 
 
A RIVER DREAM 
 
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 ** Do ways ob de worl' am hard to tell 
 But niggers fin' like de res* o' folks 
 
 Day haf to keep sciamlin, doin' well 
 
 If day keep de body an' soul from croaks." 
 
 Wall Uncle, no doubt you wish old times 
 Would come back again with their rounds of 
 fun," 
 
 " My thoughts about dat soun' bad in rhymes 
 An' I'm gettin' ol' to be totin' a gun ; 
 
 " But truf mus' be tol' or nuffin' 'tall 
 
 So den now I'm free I will speak my min', 
 
 If ebber I hear de bugle call 
 
 I will wade through blood into freedom's line." 
 
 A RIVER DREAM 
 
 We sat upon the river's brink 
 And listened to its babbling 
 
 Until the sun began to sink 
 The rosy clouds bedappling. 
 
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 A RIVER DREAM 
 
 Chorus — 
 
 Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright 
 
 Through shady woodlands winding 
 With heart that leaps in pure delight 
 
 Of memories dear reminding? 
 
 How sweet on balmy breezes brought 
 The wild perfume of flowers ! 
 
 How quick the notes of wood birds caught 
 Receptive ears like ours ! 
 
 Chorus — Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright, 
 etc. 
 
 For then we dreamt of future bliss 
 
 Far past the world denying, 
 And there we pressed that sweetest kiss 
 
 For which true hearts were sighing. 
 
 Chorus — Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright, 
 etc. 
 
 But lo, the past is all a dream 
 
 And once again in childhood 
 We rove along that very stream 
 
 At play beneath the wildwood. 
 
A RIVER DREAM 
 
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 Chorus — Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright^ 
 etc. 
 
 There stones and moss in shady nook 
 We sought for hours together, 
 
 Or dipped the baited anglers hook 
 And fished in lowery weather. 
 
 Chorus — Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright, 
 etc. 
 
 But now are others by our side, 
 This blissful dream is changing. 
 
 We feel at length parental pride 
 
 Through woods with children ranging. 
 
 Chorus — Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright, 
 etc. 
 
 And so reflecting on the past 
 
 We see that winding river 
 Where oft our happy lot was cast 
 
 In dreams that last forever. 
 Chorus — Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright, 
 
 etc. 
 
20 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 Both old and young enjoy such dreams 
 
 For thus the soul was moulded. 
 In ages past we dwelt on streams 
 
 And there our hearts unfolded. 
 
 Chorus — Oh have you dreamt of rivers bright, 
 etc. 
 
 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN, 
 
 CONCEALING AND REVEALING GEMS FROM THE 
 BORDERLAND OF KNOWLEDGE. 
 
 May wisdom, finding true expression 
 
 Here couched in strange and varied rhyme. 
 From ages dark with fierce oppression, 
 
 Resound through corridors of time. 
 Where harps respond to tones recurring 
 
 In ancient chords from human hearts, 
 A deepened sense of music stirring 
 
 That man may guard his ancient arts. 
 
 APOLOGY. 
 
 At some remote forgotten date 
 When men were wise and happy. 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
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 Before the ills since been their fate 
 
 Had rendered half unhappy, 
 There was a grand old mystic rite 
 
 All nations celebrated, 
 And by a dim but hallowed light 
 
 Their precepts formulated. 
 
 Their lessons from the stars were taught 
 
 And names to these were given 
 That truths to mind might e'er be brought 
 
 To those who search the heaven. 
 Such are the facts that move 
 
 My erring pen to scribble 
 Some things we never yet may prove 
 
 And some that can be thribble. 
 
 Some parts forsooth are backward penned 
 
 And some are forward written 
 But all at least the truth defend 
 
 Or fit it like a mitten. 
 Now after ages past and gone 
 
 To learn the Mystic Seven 
 We always must rely upon 
 
 The stars we see in heaven. 
 
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 Candidate entering: — 
 
 What means that light that shines so bright? 
 My thoughts it claims as if from flames 
 Their essence came, or were the same, 
 My head is dazed if not quite crazed 
 By such a glare that draws me there 
 And lures me on. Ah now 'tis gone, 
 A little spark gleams through the dark — 
 The spark of life with gladness rife 
 Which all men strive to keep alive 
 And cherish so their joys may glow. 
 I'll take my turn and tr}^ to learn 
 What that may be. What do I see? " 
 
 A voice from within: — 
 
 Hold young daring youth. 
 Must thou know the truth ? 
 Trifle not in this, 
 Seek elsewhere for bliss. 
 Backward leads this light 
 Through the gloom of night, 
 Back to ancient times, 
 Back to distant climes. 
 First the peril know, 
 Then, if thou wilt go. 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 Just to learn those things, 
 Braving- pains and stings 
 Which the past has known, 
 Go, but not alone. 
 Ever at thy side 
 Shall there be a guide. 
 Heed his words and hold 
 Firm, though scenes unfold 
 That shall chill thy blood, 
 Bring anon a flood 
 Of hot tears, or strain 
 All thy nerves with pain. 
 Such has been the course 
 Of that vital force 
 Which thou seek to learn 
 Which within must burn 
 As it has before 
 In thy sires of yore. 
 That the heaving waves. 
 Which the sailor braves, 
 Stormy winds at night. 
 Or the war's sad plight, 
 Are like music sweet 
 With which sirens greet 
 When compared to this — 
 
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 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 Like a sweetheart's kiss, 
 In embowered bliss 
 To a serpent's hiss. 
 O seek not abodes of death, 
 But rather the vital breath, 
 For onward thy being yearns 
 To speed, as no flame returns 
 To set the cold ash afire, 
 Let hope of new life inspire 
 And keep all thy passions strong 
 That pilot the soul along. 
 What sayest thou, go or stay? 
 Inform me without delay. 
 
 Candidate replies: — 
 
 Winds may blow and the waves may roar 
 As I go to that unknown shore, 
 But my mind is now firmly set ; 
 You will find all those dangers met 
 With a heart that is brave and true 
 And no part shall I ever rue. 
 
 OATH 
 
 Voice from within: — 
 
 Then swear to be true to thyself and thy kind, 
 Remember thou too hast no pelf and art blind. 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
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 The same as thou findest the case with thee now — 
 This oath is to bind in this plpce thou must vow — 
 Should others be found and their claims be 
 made good 
 
 Kind deeds shall abound and no blames under- 
 stood 
 
 Shall mar thy good name. This thou also must 
 swear 
 
 To see that no shame ever falls to thy share. 
 Thy fathers behold thee thy sons shall recall 
 Whose love should e'er hold thee responsive to 
 all. 
 
 Their witness shall be lest thy troth be gain- 
 said 
 
 Then speak and be free be not loth nor afraid. 
 Candidate repeats: — 
 
 All this do I swear and my faith is now plighted 
 To walk with all care where my path shall be 
 lighted. 
 
 My guide is not blind ; I will trust to his seeing^ 
 And follow behind for I must not be fleeing. 
 I naught will reveal and no anger will cherish ; 
 All secrets conceal though I hang till I perish. 
 My name I declare is in truth just as follows 
 By all that is fair though forsooth on the gallows. 
 
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 Guide Directs: — 
 
 " Let us ask of the Lord that His mercies be 
 shown us 
 
 May this task bring reward and no curses to 
 harm. 
 
 Since His will is Almighty we trust He will own 
 us 
 
 So while still in His sight never must take 
 alarm." 
 
 OPENING SONG 
 Chorus singing: — 
 
 When men shall unite let their hearts form the 
 union 
 
 And good be the plan kept in view, 
 Be praise to the right which shall have all 
 dominion 
 Though followers number but few ! 
 
 The right is the end for which all should be 
 longing 
 
 And nothing should stand in its way, 
 No creeds that may rend to the churches be- 
 longing 
 
 Or forms that but serve for display. 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
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 As much as our way may diverge from the 
 rightful 
 
 So much will our souls be to blame 
 And no one should say though his heart may 
 be spiteful 
 Some other shall suffer the same. 
 
 But those are not safe who proclaim their per- 
 fection 
 
 And call on the Lord the most loud, 
 Or claim to vouchsafe to the soul a protection 
 Not found to its goodness allowed. 
 
 For error is sure in the end to be noted 
 
 Bad plans can be never fulfilled, 
 So only the pure in the heart are denoted 
 
 To see in the end what they willed. 
 
 Events of the past are all fitted together 
 No change in them ever was made 
 
 And all will at last be informed as to whether 
 Their plans have been properly laid. 
 
 For error is sure in the end to be noted ; 
 
 Bad plans can be never fulfilled ; 
 So only the pure in the heart are denoetd 
 
 To see in the end what they willed. 
 
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 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 But those are not safe who proclaim their per- 
 fection 
 
 And call on the Lord the most loud, 
 Or claim to vouchsafe to the soul a protection 
 Nor found to its goodness allowed. 
 
 As much as our ways may diverge from the 
 rightful 
 
 So much will our souls be to blame ; 
 And no one should say though his heart may be 
 spiteful 
 
 Some other shall suffer the same. 
 
 The right is the end for which all should be 
 longing 
 
 And no one should stand in its way — 
 No creeds that may rend to the churches be- 
 longing 
 
 Or forms that but serve for display. 
 
 When men shall unite let their hearts form the 
 union 
 
 And good be the plan kept in view, 
 Be praise to the right which shall have all 
 dominion 
 Though followers number but few ! 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 Guide introduces @ 
 
 If now thy silent prayer is done 
 
 And still thy courage holds, 
 Give me thy hand. This course begun 
 Ends not till much unfolds. 
 
 Behold the golden eye of day, 
 The sun whose rays outshine 
 
 All other lights in grand array, 
 His light our path defines. 
 
 O master of the golden orb, 
 
 Declare to us our counse, 
 From thee all things on earth absorb 
 
 Their strength, their life and force. 
 
 True symbol of the primal means 
 By which all things are moved, 
 
 We beg thee tell what wondrous scenes 
 Thy searching glance hath proved. 
 
 A CHARGE 
 
 Master representing the Sun : — 
 Oh youth, eternal thine estate. 
 
 In thee the resurrection of the past 
 
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 Is made complete. That lofty trait 
 
 That piercing glance thine haughty eye doth 
 cast, 
 
 That movement of thy shapely limb, 
 
 But tells me of thy warrior sires. 
 Shall years their hoary records dim? 
 
 Or quench their soul's undying fires? 
 
 In thee, the serf and king unite; 
 
 In thee is blent the past of all thy race ; 
 In thee the souls pre- Adamite 
 
 Still dwell and lend thee yet their living 
 grace. 
 
 That calmness which can bring relief 
 That courage which disdains despair 
 
 Still tell us of their ancient griei, 
 
 Their present love and watchful care. 
 
 No wretch so low that treads the earth 
 
 But harbors in his heaving breast the fate 
 Of cherished souls that gave him birth, 
 
 Th}^ kindred of the past whose love or hate 
 Within thee burns at their disgrace 
 
 And bids the succor their distress. 
 When lines of anguish mark a face 
 
 All feel the sadness they impn-ss. 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 3 1 
 
 The highest care of life should be 
 
 To keep those vital flames within unquenched, 
 That life and love's undying glee 
 
 May shed their glow upon thy race entrenched ; 
 That thus the world more perfect made 
 
 May be the heaven men have sought, 
 That here a kingdom shall be laid 
 
 As grand and good as love e'er wrought. 
 
 I now command thee take the course 
 
 That leads toward that orb whose crescent 
 light 
 
 Shall loose thy bonds and grant recourse 
 
 To ancient times. Thy soul at dead of night 
 
 Shall follow back to whence it came 
 And guided by the planet's rays 
 
 Shall learn what ages past proclaim. 
 Behold what visions meet thy gaze ! 
 
 HEREAFTER 
 
 Chorus: — 
 
 When the sun shall descend the stars will appear 
 
 And the silvery moon illumine the earth. 
 Then do birds of the air and squirrels repair 
 
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 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 To their nests in the oak 
 Where their joys first awoke 
 In the breath of sweet life that came with 
 their birth. 
 
 At the end of our day when life shall depart 
 May the stars and the moon shed softly their 
 light. 
 
 May we feel in our heart, well done is our part 
 And go back in our mind 
 To the gladness we find 
 In the course of a life well spent for the right. 
 
 May the light from new worlds unseen in our day 
 Bring its peace to our soul's departing at last. 
 We can think as we may of passing away, 
 But the life that we lead 
 It is well we should heed 
 And our duty be done before it is past. 
 
 For the day of our life is never complete 
 
 Till the morning, the noon, and the evening 
 have come. 
 
 Those who rise and compete with glory retreat 
 And attain to their own. 
 With a joy that is known 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
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 But to those who have tried what life may 
 become. 
 
 At the noon of our life fond love we should know 
 And behold in our children grace that is fair. 
 May our souls in them show with a radiant glow, 
 In the face at our knee 
 In the moonlight we see 
 At the evening of life. The soul has gone 
 there. 
 
 Guide: — 
 
 Behold the crescent orb of night appears 
 Fit emblem of the changeful course of years ; 
 And now the dead of night at length draws nigh 
 With glimmers of the past that flit before the eye. 
 
 To the moon: — 
 
 Oh moon, as on bur souls the past is wrought 
 Thy visage all its grace to mind has brought. 
 We seek thy silent benediction now. 
 Wilt thou safe passage to the past allow ? 
 
 To candidate again: — 
 
 The heavy wheels of time must onward roll, 
 But if thou heed the beckonings of thy soul 
 
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 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 The past will now its precious truths unfold. 
 Have courage with thy manner not too bold. 
 
 Representing ;}) ; — 
 
 Now backward at length may thy soul take its 
 flight. 
 
 Once more as a child shalt thou slumber to-night. 
 Thy mothers embrace thee, thy fathers protect, 
 And thus on these loved ones thy mind should 
 reflect. 
 
 The flames of their lives now encircle the earth 
 Which kindled thy life into being at birth. 
 All men are thy kindred and love for mankind 
 Should make them thy brothers by ties that 
 must bind. 
 
 Thy path will now lead through a lodge of the 
 past 
 
 Where men once convened and their fortunes 
 were cast. 
 
 Its name has been called Mystic Seven of old. 
 The astrologer's lesson we next will unfold. 
 
WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 THE ENGENDERED 
 
 Beneatli the starlit heavens 
 Our ancient master strode. 
 
 He taught the young of sevens 
 That formed his sacred code. 
 
 Of seven parts the godhead, 
 Of seven spheres was space, 
 
 And seven days embodied 
 The round of weekly grace. 
 
 And first the will of heaven 
 
 Our master did esteem 
 The lord of all the seven 
 
 Whose glory is supreme. 
 
 So Jove, that shines most brightly 
 
 Of all the stars we see, 
 Was hailed as ruler nightly 
 
 Of all on land or sea. 
 
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 And next the power he guided 
 Was called the ruler's son. 
 
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 As day from night divided 
 Behold the glorious sun ! 
 
 For now the sunbeams flashing 
 Proclaim the lord of day, 
 
 Across the heavens dashing 
 No might his course can stay. 
 
 And so our source of power 
 Becomes to us its sign. 
 
 Before it all must cower 
 Both mortal and divine. 
 
 Third Logos gained attention 
 Of all the powers that be, 
 
 To prove a grand intention 
 To show the perfect three. 
 
 See Mercury half hiding 
 
 Within the sun's bright rays 
 
 To teach us of confiding 
 In Wisdom's holy ways. 
 
 Of Thot on winged sandals 
 We tell each Wednesday eve, 
 
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 And burn the seven candles 
 To show what we believe. 
 
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 And next to distant Saturn 
 With rings to ancients known, 
 
 They pointed as a pattern 
 
 With boundless space was shown. 
 
 Around his path so slowly 
 
 He leads his silent train, 
 That people high and lowly 
 
 Proclaimed his solemn reign. 
 
 This son of Coelus merits 
 Creation's mighty realm. 
 
 His throne of space inherits 
 From him who holds the helm» 
 
 But Mars we see up yonder 
 That glows so fiery red, 
 
 His rays inspire with wonder 
 As darts and spears with dread. 
 
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 He hurls his shafts so truly 
 To distant parts of space, 
 
 That all creation duly 
 
 Is warned in every place. 
 
 With truth his spears are pointed 
 The very quick to sting, 
 
 And at the time appointed 
 Disclosing everything. 
 
 For all we know of matter 
 
 Must come through space to us. 
 
 And rays like darts must scatter 
 For one to feel it thus. 
 
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 So next, and most delightful 
 
 Is Veuus, lovely star; 
 The name we give is rightful, 
 
 No faults its beauty mar. 
 
 With love and joy is ended 
 
 The story planets tell ; 
 And through it all is blended 
 
 The truth we love so well. 
 
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 For now the moon appearing, 
 
 Illumes the silent night, 
 As through the darkness peering 
 
 We see its crescent light. 
 
 Of time it tells the story, 
 
 Of changes and events ; 
 Diana in her glory 
 
 The gloom of night prevents. 
 
 Oui» ancient master teaches 
 
 His lessons day by day ; 
 Through names his wisdom reaches 
 
 The humblest of the lay. 
 
 Guide introducing Hermes: — 
 
 We now shall hear in turn, 
 What planets tell of nature ; 
 
 From them we hope to learn 
 
 The truths which all should treasure. 
 
 Swift Hermes circles first 
 Around the source of power, 
 
 Like dainty budlet nursed 
 Beside a full blown flower. 
 
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 All kinds of beauty wrought, 
 Designs, or crystals moulded, 
 
 Were fashioned first in thought 
 Before their forms unfolded. 
 
 And all more wondrous seem 
 
 The nearer to the atoms ; 
 Thus microbes lustrous gleam 
 
 And more like thinking phantoms. 
 
 The lily's blushing tints 
 
 On sweetly scented petal 
 May give the artist hints 
 
 And try the chemist's metal. 
 
 But cells have made those paints, 
 And oils so sweetly scented ; 
 
 And wrought without complaints 
 The beauteous plans presented. 
 
 Yon twinkling planet shines. 
 
 Fleet Mercury belated ; 
 Of thought and fair designs 
 
 A symbol justly rated. 
 
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 He teaches us to seek 
 
 In every part for learning ; 
 
 With open hearts and meek, 
 No source of wisdom spurning. 
 
 PROVE WISDOM 
 
 Representing $ / — 
 
 Oh Man, how little you know with so keen a 
 mind ! 
 
 Your wisdom is folly compared to the plan 
 By which your body was formed, where by 
 
 instinct blind 
 Each cell does the best for the whole that it 
 
 can. 
 
 Yes, blind to all but its duty it does its part. 
 Thus man were he blind to himself and the 
 wrong, 
 
 Might serve the body of men with his wisdom 
 and subtle art. 
 As birds in the spring to the world sing their 
 song. 
 
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 But here and now it appears to most that we find, 
 
 Is all that is worthy of notice to them. 
 No other race and no other degree but the class 
 defined, 
 
 Is quite like themselves and all else they 
 contemn. 
 
 What fools were heathen of old when they 
 
 worshipped stars," 
 Says one. ''And again when they named 
 
 them from gods," 
 Another echoes, " As Saturn and Venus, Mars, 
 And all of the planets. Their names make no 
 
 odds." 
 
 ' ' And strangely we find that the days of the 
 
 week are named 
 From deities they must have vainly adored, 
 The same in fact with the planets as some have 
 
 claimed," 
 
 Thus ancient knowledge is scoffed and ab- 
 horred. 
 
 Another answers perchance and remarks quite 
 cool : 
 
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 "These ancients might worship some attri- 
 butes then 
 
 Of God or nature and not after all play the fool, 
 Bui still they were not quite as smart as our 
 ten." 
 
 Arabian, Hindu, and Chinaman each is sure 
 That all but his people are nothing but fools ; 
 
 And Christians, scientists, all Europeans lure 
 Themselves into thinking how grand are their 
 schools. 
 
 Who built that pile to the sun in remote Baalbec? 
 What fool would you think could design such 
 a style ; 
 
 Or ruins Egypt has left as a nation's wreck 
 Where pyramids, columns, and sphinxes may 
 smile ? 
 
 Then ancient ruins of thought may be found in 
 names 
 
 And words which, if studied, produce grand 
 results ; 
 
 So never think that the past is not all that it 
 claims, 
 
 And proves that it is hearty food for adults." 
 
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 Then insects, birds, and our animal neighbors- 
 too, 
 
 And creatures too small to be seen with our 
 eyes, 
 
 All have their traits, and in getting their food, 
 they do 
 
 Just what is found best for their needs and 
 their size. 
 
 Some microbes live but a day and their course- 
 is run. 
 
 Unless they may live but a part of some life,^ 
 Like those we find in a body that war as one 
 No matter how many may die in the strife. 
 
 From all these beings we learn if the truth we 
 see, 
 
 That much still remains for the wise to find out, 
 And prove that all are not fools that may seem 
 to be, 
 
 To those who are careless in looking about. 
 
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 CREATION FOR GOD'S GLORY, NOT 
 MAN'S 
 
 i^CHORUS: — 
 
 Why bloom in sweet perfection 
 
 The roses in the dale ; 
 'Mid thorns for their protection 
 
 By springs that never fail? 
 
 Oh brightly spotted adder 
 Why coil yourself to spring 
 
 On birds? To make us sadder 
 Because they cease to sing? 
 
 You mild-eyed hooting jester 
 Soft downy feathered owl, 
 
 Why tear the plumed songster 
 Or pampered farm-yard fowl? 
 
 To spoil for us our dinner 
 
 In want of better sport? 
 Or do you play the sinner, 
 
 And our forgiveness court? 
 
 Why yelps the wild fox nightly 
 Behind the chicken's coop? 
 
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 He surely guesses rightly — 
 We want them for our soup. 
 
 But man, both slow at guessing, 
 And seldom seeing right. 
 
 Deceives himself, professing 
 To know it all at sight. 
 
 These creatures that surround us 
 Have longings in their hearts 
 
 That often may confound us, 
 And baffle all our arts. 
 
 While even plants that flower, 
 Select the choicest spot. 
 
 And prove the subtle power 
 That guards them in their lot. 
 
 That man is gone with madness 
 Who thinks that only he 
 
 Was made to feel the gladness 
 Of all the things we see. 
 
 But life for all is pleasure. 
 And nothing is in vain, 
 
 If good for all we treasure 
 Apart from selfish gain. 
 
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 THE TRESTLEBOARD 
 
 Guide: — 
 
 Next we find our trestleboard 
 
 Must be explained and noted ; 
 Its points and lines afford 
 
 A clue to work devoted. 
 
 Seven paths are weekly trod, 
 With seven resting places, 
 
 Each of these should teach of|God 
 And all His love embraces. 
 
 Seven planets give them name. 
 In order strictly mentioned, 
 
 Attributes of Him proclaim, 
 And prove all well-intentioned. 
 
 So our trestleboard is found 
 Designed upon this basis. 
 
 Seven points by lines are bound, 
 Which thus a star form traces. 
 
 Seven questions mind may ask 
 Of nature and her magic, 
 
 Reason finds a noble task, 
 But answers by her logic. 
 
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 Marking well these points and lines, 
 Swift Hermes speaks again. 
 
 Here the truth of God's designs 
 Are shown once more to men. 
 
 WHENCE THE ELEMENTS 
 $ again: — 
 
 Of seventy elements or more 
 
 In varied combinations formed, 
 All things are known through chemic lore 
 To be produced to laws conformed. 
 
 From crude, coherent poison drug. 
 To fruit of tropic, wholesome food, 
 
 From clod of earth to humble bug 
 
 These things compose the good and rude» 
 
 Yet when we view them close we find 
 That these but differ in the way, 
 
 The forms of energy combined 
 
 To make them facts that last for aye. 
 
 All change in this relates to force ; 
 
 And force depends on laws of space ; 
 And this implies one common source ; 
 
 That source to thought like ours we trace. 
 
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 For thought forms plans, and plans when 
 formed 
 
 Must prove an author thought them out, 
 So reason proves to be the ground 
 , Of action in ourselves and all about. 
 
 Perception, thought and will are parts 
 That form the mind, but whence has come 
 
 This mind that all our joy imparts? 
 Indeed all things contain its sum. 
 
 The life of man is but a plan 
 
 That lasts some seventy years or more. 
 The child must grow to be a man, 
 
 And tread the paths all trod before. 
 
 So this life's lesson is reviewed, 
 And each by all is taught the way 
 
 That leads to right, the wrong eschewed. 
 For nature seldom leads astray. 
 
 All plans united into one 
 
 The great eternal whole must make 
 And thus we end where all begun 
 
 In God whose love all lives partake. 
 
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 STAR OF WISDOM 
 
 Chorus: — 
 
 Star of wisdom all divine ! 
 Fill our souls with light of thine. 
 Rounds of ages we are living, 
 To the future life are giving. 
 Perfect be this life of ours 
 To impart its sacred powers. 
 
 Childhood blessed with holy charm, 
 Manhood reared to might of arm, 
 ' Maiden virtue most becoming, 
 All inspire through ages coming 
 Confidence and grace unended. 
 Precious life by these defended ! 
 
 Every part of life's short span 
 Proves the art of wisdom's plan. 
 Through it all we can detect 
 Changing moods that help protect. 
 To review life's round of blessing 
 Is our object of progressing. 
 Hail to Thot, the holy word. 
 Holy Ghost, and sacred bird ! 
 
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 Guide: — 
 
 Thy mind should now be turned 
 
 To thoughts of love and glory 
 From Venus may be learned 
 
 That precious old old story, 
 
 SOCIALISM OF LOVE 
 
 Representing 9 
 
 If thou wouldst know the joys of life 
 
 And reach a noble ending. 
 Be never slow to meet its strife 
 
 Nor wait for help and lending. 
 For he is only half a man 
 
 Who does not make his living 
 But rests upon that other plan — 
 
 To live by others giving. 
 
 Now it is best each one be tried 
 
 To prove his strength to master, 
 And put to test whatever betide 
 
 That all improve the faster ; 
 For those are left who fall behind 
 
 And waste their time in dreaming, 
 While those more deft and not so blind 
 
 Win life with pleasures teeming. 
 
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 But every one should have a chance 
 
 As good as any other. 
 The wise and good may thus advance 
 
 The weak ones be no bother. 
 Then it is only fair that these 
 
 As brothers be regarded 
 That all may do the way they please 
 
 With interests safely guarded. 
 
 If people want their burdens light 
 
 Then all should help to carry. 
 When each shall use his brain and might 
 
 Why need the poor to tarry? 
 For half the world is idle now 
 
 And half the good things wasted, 
 And half the rest we must allow 
 
 Were better never tasted. 
 
 Now rights are granted by the laws 
 
 Which people think are rightful, 
 And well we know they are the cause 
 
 Of many things delightful. 
 But laws should change when out of date 
 
 To suit the new conditions, 
 And now we find their present state 
 
 May need a few additions. 
 
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 For now we have machines and tools 
 
 And swift communication 
 Atjlength there is no need of fools 
 
 To^^'drudge, with education. 
 So let the lash be laid aside 
 
 With work at length a pleasure, 
 Since^now it is the knaves take pride 
 
 In boasting of their treasure. 
 
 The game of life has laws we find 
 
 For safety must be followed, — 
 Thus, if the big fish are behind, 
 
 Some minnows will be swallowed. 
 But nature and not wealth has made 
 
 The balance of our power, 
 And those who shall her laws evade 
 
 Beneath her might must cower. 
 
 So it is best for every race 
 
 Thatfall should win their stations. 
 Then, when the weak ones fall apace. 
 
 No bid one grabs their rations. 
 When none can build his house on wealth 
 
 And each must use his talents. 
 Then all will find in strength and health 
 
 That nature holds the balance. 
 
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 Thus Venus lead the way to love 
 
 With joy and every blessing. 
 To nature's path she points above 
 
 The truth to all confessing; — 
 That life is sweet and must be spared 
 
 And won each generation. 
 No future hope can be compared 
 
 To this sure affirmation. 
 
 EQUITY, THE WORLD'S NEED 
 Chorus: — 
 
 The cataract's booming torrent swells 
 
 The sum of human power. 
 The breeze that once sighed through the forest 
 tells 
 
 Who built the windmill tower. 
 
 And deep from the coal mine comes the force 
 
 That turns so many a wheel ; 
 One asks in his heart — Will time in its course 
 
 The ills of the poor man heal? " 
 
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 The ocean tides may bring new means 
 
 To add to human might, 
 The flames from the crater's awful scenes 
 
 May furnish electric light ; 
 
 But while a few unfairly keep 
 
 The stock of human wealth, 
 Full many may turn from toil to sleep 
 
 In hunger and ill health. 
 
 Now when, at length, some electric light 
 
 Shall shine upon the moon, 
 We hope it may flash to all in sight 
 
 The news of our greatest boon — 
 
 That all hereafter shall start out fair 
 On the road for comforts here, 
 
 The good of all to be their care 
 And failure not to fear. 
 
 For while the souls of rich and poor 
 Are turned from nature's course, 
 
 At some time mingling blood is sure 
 To bring its own remorse. 
 
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 LOVE'S ADVICE 
 
 9 again: — 
 
 Kind nature now our servant 
 
 Should be our only slave, 
 Grown wise and more observant 
 
 Mankind its own should save ; 
 Should spare the widow's weeping, 
 
 Supply the orphan's needs, 
 While bounteous harvests reaping 
 
 Should rise to nobler deeds. 
 
 But can this be expected 
 
 While men for wealth compete ? 
 And he is most respected 
 
 Who can his neighbor beat? 
 The power of the nations 
 
 Should hold such lust in check, 
 Till none shall know privations 
 
 That make of life a wreck. 
 
 While great may be the power 
 That some may justly win, 
 
 As mighty oaks that tower 
 From tiny shoots begin ; 
 
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 So each should start out lowly 
 And grow to fill his place. 
 
 At first it should be slowly 
 For good to win the race. 
 
 For sudden acquisitions 
 
 With folly will be spent 
 And broaden class divisions, 
 
 Since few can be content 
 To use their own resources 
 
 When others are in hand. 
 Temptations luring forces 
 
 Weak men cannot withstand. 
 
 To give a man a fortune 
 
 He does not fairly earn 
 Must some way bring misfortune, 
 
 For each must take his turn, 
 And justice is essential 
 
 la all the laws of life. 
 To right of deferential 
 
 May men thus end their strife. 
 
 When nations of hereafter 
 
 Shall occupy the earth, 
 May hills resound with laughter 
 
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 And vales be filled with mirth. 
 May all men live as brothers 
 
 And share their happy lot 
 Each blessing all the others 
 
 With enmity forgot. 
 
 PREPARE FOR LIGHT 
 
 Guide: — 
 
 Guard well thine eyes. Our pathway lies 
 Straight hence toward the blazing sun. 
 
 Once more prepare. Let not despair 
 Turn thee aback from right begun. 
 
 For sages old have ever told 
 
 That maxim grave, — Turn not from right," 
 But bravely strive, while yet alive 
 
 To learn the truth and seek for light. 
 
 What though the past return at last 
 
 That worshipped sunlight and the dawn ? 
 
 We still may find another kind 
 Of wisdom then, not wholly gone. 
 
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 In every myth there is a pith 
 
 That swells the sum of human lore. 
 
 Did sun gods stand on every hand 
 E'er heroes all their titles bore? 
 
 Each virgin-born on Christmas morn 
 
 In lowly cave or manger laid, 
 Whose head has shone as sun alone 
 
 With light could shine and never fade. 
 
 Strange works the sun has always done ! 
 
 As on its journey north it goes, 
 It brings to life what winter's strife 
 
 Has slain by all our dreaded foes. 
 
 Three days in hell did heroes dwell 
 That from the sun their likeness drew. 
 
 A cross each bore in days of yore 
 As saving grace to men if true. 
 
 The world is wide. On every side 
 
 We find these myths were known and told 
 
 From Afric wild to Asia mild 
 And Mexico in days of old. 
 
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 A triune god on every sod 
 
 Whereon the sun has shone we find. 
 The second one in truth the sun — 
 
 Osiris, Chrishna, Buddha kind. 
 
 Quetsalcohuatle with wrong did battle 
 Whose Indian temples bore thy name, 
 
 Oh Sun. Declare to wisdom's heir — 
 Thy secrets to this youth proclaim. 
 
 THE SUN'S VIEW 
 
 Representing — ^ 
 
 Children of this lesser sphere. 
 
 Hear me now and nothing fear. 
 
 I have viewed this world while rolling 
 
 On through space like demon strolling ; 
 
 Viewed it with this thought consoling, 
 
 Life is there if nothing here — 
 
 Life that all have found most dear, 
 
 Though it bring so oft a tear. 
 
 When I watch yon church bells tolling 
 
 Call the crowds to faith-controlling, 
 
 And the mystic rites I see, 
 
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 That I know refer to me ; 
 Then at last do I remember 
 Of my birthday in December, 
 In the sign that rules September — 
 Virgo or Maya may be — 
 As the name now comes to me. 
 All the world both land and sea 
 Was at peace in every member — 
 Filled with love like glowing ember. 
 As I glanced upon the earth 
 All proclaimed my joyous birth. 
 For ten thousand years abiding 
 Was that peace and all confiding, 
 Till at length there came dividing 
 In a season fraught with death. — 
 Till the races ceased from mirth 
 While they counted every worth 
 With the wicked over-riding. 
 Then the virgin was presiding 
 In the holy month of May. 
 In the lamb was solstice day. 
 For the scroll of heaven turning 
 With each equinox returning 
 Wrought its change, all nature spurning. 
 Though twelve thousand years away, 
 
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 In the past, your sages say, 
 When they sing in roundelay, 
 Was the golden age of learning. 
 But they little know concerning 
 All the changes that took place 
 On the earth before my face. 
 For I saw Atlantis sinking 
 With its millions little thinking 
 They would perish in a blinking. 
 Then I saw on every race 
 Changes wrought that I could trace 
 Through events more commonplace. 
 You will find my stories linking 
 From your purpose never shrinking 
 That my words are safe and true. 
 All these things I show to you 
 As the judge of all creation. 
 Seeing good in every nation 
 I proclaim my celebration. — 
 Each two thousand years I do 
 As I pass before your view — 
 Now in Scorpio nearly due 
 Is my birthday ordination 
 Past the bowman's constellation. 
 For your era was begun 
 
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 .At the very time your sun 
 Passed within this sign I mention, 
 And I hereby call attention 
 To a very good intention 
 To begin the count with one 
 When the Archer's age is done, 
 Since I am the triune son. 
 Now without a hesitation 
 You proceed to consummation. 
 
 ATLANTIS 
 
 Chorus: — 
 
 Often think of the land of the blest 
 That was sunk in the eddying ocean, 
 
 For its standard of right is our quest 
 To restore to our children their portion. 
 
 We are told that to each at his birth 
 A proportionate share was provided 
 
 'Of the whole that accrued to the worth 
 Of the world with its wealth undivided. 
 
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 The Essenes and the earliest sect 
 
 Of the Christians and Therepeut doctors 
 
 Have declared that the strong should protect 
 And should be to the weak benefactors. 
 
 That the greatest should be as the least 
 
 And should serve in his sphere like another, — 
 
 Not usurp to himself like a beast 
 
 All the goods of the earth from his brother. 
 
 Thus a lifetime annuity brings 
 
 As each adds on his yearly accretion 
 
 A most happy adjustment of things, 
 
 Since all seek to improve their condition. 
 
 Let us take our next step in advance 
 On the course of our grand evolution. 
 
 In good time like a tune of the dance, 
 And lead on to the right resolution. 
 
 THE LEAST WRONG MAY BE FATAL 
 Guide: — 
 
 Our ancient magicians long taught it was right 
 
 To labor by day and to rest by the night. 
 
 In strength thus renewd and in toil is delight. 
 
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 They said that the sun on its path to the west 
 Would never turn backward nor stop for a rest 
 Till darkness had come with its silent behest. 
 
 If only a minute the sun had been turned 
 To move on a course to the east unconcerned 
 The truth of their maxim would surely be 
 learned. — 
 
 Two minutes behind would its course have been 
 run, 
 
 Two minutes too late had the twilight begun, 
 Its place in the heavens could never be won. 
 
 So those who have tried all their lives to be 
 good, 
 
 And turn for a moment to wrong understood, 
 Can never climb back where they ought to have 
 stood. 
 
 Now guard thy steps for many meet 
 With strange mishaps along this road. 
 
 We trust that now thou art discreet, 
 And wrong assume thou wilt unload. 
 
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 LIFE'S PATH 
 
 © again : — 
 
 Between two lofty mountain peaks 
 
 Is stretched a narrow silken band, 
 And over this whoever seeks 
 
 For life must gain the promised land. 
 
 The slightest error or mishap 
 
 Will send thee headlong far below. 
 
 Unlike a gentle mother's lap 
 
 Is spread that valley broad and low. 
 
 For in it dwell the monstrous herds 
 Of evils dire destructions brood, 
 
 That from it rise like carrior birds 
 
 And forth their gruesome heads protrude. 
 
 This is the path of life for all, 
 
 And while we pass this dizzy height 
 
 How many slip and downward fall 
 To depths of sorrow's awful plight ! 
 
 But, guided by the star of love 
 And guarded by the watchful care 
 
 Of souls that reached their place above, 
 A few will win their mansions there. 
 
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 For life is grand when once attained 
 With all the glory of the race, 
 
 When spread to all and thus maintained, 
 No chance its glory can efface. 
 
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 Chorus: 
 
 Wheresoe'er the Sun doth shine 
 In its glory all divine 
 From its rising to decline. 
 
 All the nations of mankind 
 
 Tell in allegory blind 
 
 Of a man most wondrous kind, 
 
 Who the blessed precepts told 
 Nobler life thereby to mould 
 With the sinful well controlled. 
 
 But the wicked ever rise 
 
 Like the clouds in fairest skies, 
 
 Thus the wrong all right defies. 
 
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 So within God's holy church, 
 Wrongs will come like birds to perch 
 In the nitches hard to search ; 
 
 But behold the eye of day 
 Drives the darkest clouds away, 
 And we trust his light will stay. 
 
 On the cross of Calvary 
 Shine, O sun, that all may see 
 What thy glorious truth may be ! 
 
 In thy light all life has grown. 
 Evolutions it has shown. 
 By progression it is known. 
 Living forms were all produced. 
 To a science quite reduced, 
 Truths from life are thus deduced. 
 
 Traces left in ancient stones, 
 Footprints there, and fossil bones. 
 Tell their truths in thunder tones ; 
 While the deeper student finds 
 Food for more reflective minds 
 In life's varying modes and kinds. 
 
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 So the soul of man was made, 
 Rising slowly grade by grade. 
 May its glories never fade ! 
 Search, O sun, for truth and right! 
 Shed on all thy glorious light ! 
 Lead us back from error's night ! 
 
 Guide: — 
 
 Once more the sun in glory passed, 
 We meet with Mars of warlike fame, 
 
 But here we find his virtues classed 
 With those more worthy of the name. 
 
 The truth by him will be revealed 
 
 As truths are shown throughout all space, 
 
 For nothing ever is concealed 
 
 And time cannot the truth efface. 
 
 LOGIC OF PERPETUAL VERITIES 
 Representing $ : — 
 
 Some truth or reality surely exists, 
 
 Or nothing would be which is never true ; 
 
 Since nothing is that of which nothing consists, 
 And truth is a basis that none can rue. 
 
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 Then time is a verity sure as a fact 
 That 7iever was anything true without 
 
 And space we assume before something is lacked 
 And truth is discovered nowhere about. 
 
 Now change is another undoubted affair 
 
 That makes the connection of time and space. 
 
 Without it no time and no need of a where 
 And with it we find that the truth has place. 
 
 But change from the truth we could never 
 believe, 
 
 At once in two places is not the same, 
 And change out of space is no truth we conceive 
 Nor entering space where it never came. 
 
 So change to no space or to points must relate 
 That move in a manner to make all change. 
 
 And since that is true for all space in each state 
 Some truth must communicate truth through 
 its range. 
 
 In spite of all verities truth must remain 
 Perception is therefore, the plain result 
 
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 Preventing the changes which time must main- 
 tain 
 
 From changing the truths which we now 
 consult. 
 
 Now change is a truth yet a change in the true 
 
 And changing of time is a truth of course, 
 But change in a change with a change of time 
 too 
 
 Perceived as a truth must be caused by force. 
 
 So force must be true and by truth be explained, 
 Explaining be true and the truth made plain, 
 
 Perception of changes in truth be retained, 
 Thus reason be true and some truth contain. 
 
 Whence matter must be the first truth we de- 
 duced 
 
 The cause of perception through space and 
 time, 
 
 But changes in matter are ever produced 
 By forces that act on a plan sublime. 
 
 That plan must be based on the truth as 
 perceived 
 
 Designing relations in space. Then force 
 
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 Must act as a will by the plan thus conceived 
 Producing all change by the truest course. 
 
 Thus force or the will by all changes is proved. 
 
 Occasioned by time which depends on change, 
 It acts upon matter perceived to be moved 
 
 To bring about order and truth arrange. 
 
 Then space was a verity shown at the start 
 Where truths all exist and designs are formed, 
 
 And time is another we prove in part 
 
 By change of perception of truth informed. 
 
 Then reason we know to be based on the true 
 Occasioned by changes it forms designs, 
 
 Preserving the truth and is brought to view 
 By order perceived which the will combines. 
 
 Perception by reason of time is explained 
 
 And space where the changes of truth take 
 place. 
 
 Since will and the reason as truths are main- 
 tained, 
 
 Perception is pleasure or pain as may be the 
 case. 
 
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 Now change will complete the verities shown, 
 Vis viva we call it in matter found 
 
 Directed by force, based on plans not alone 
 Depending on matter but change all 'round. 
 
 When these are complete in an infinite sphere, 
 Pure joy is the end and result of all, 
 
 But error is finite and pain is here 
 
 Commingled with joy as the lot may fall. 
 
 If plans that are good and on truths are well 
 based 
 
 With effort to help them are wrought by each, 
 Much pain in the finite is then effaced ; 
 So that is the way for the world to teach. 
 
 But infinite wisdom and infinite will, 
 
 All-powerful truth and prevailing might. 
 
 Eternal and infinite joy must fulfill 
 
 And God is the sum of all truth and right. 
 
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 TRUTH 
 
 Chorus: — 
 
 Oh warrior bold we now behold 
 Thy power that none can shake. 
 
 From olden time we learn in rhyme 
 How truth makes error quake. 
 
 Thy first rebuff is quite enough 
 For wiseacres to take. 
 
 ROUND OF NATURE 
 
 $ again: — 
 
 To review the round of nature 
 
 Trying treasured truths to teach, 
 Is no newly found adventure. 
 
 Rules recalled right reasons reach. 
 
 Men have long been seeking vainly 
 Better being's broader base ; 
 
 But along with freaks have mainly 
 Found fair fortune's friendly face. 
 
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 Ancients scanned tlie distant heavens 
 Thinking this then thinking that. 
 
 As they planned by mystic sevens 
 Seers 'side sages sternly sat. 
 
 Evolutions now are lusty 
 
 Dimly dawning during doubt. 
 
 Resolutions vow them trusty 
 Raising rash religious rout. 
 
 We have heard a queer assertion 
 Which would worry were we wont 
 
 Undeterred from sheer aversion, — 
 " How hard holy hatreds hunt." 
 
 Some predict with cold most biting 
 Frigid frosts for future fate, 
 
 Some more strict but old in writing 
 Breath by burning blazes bate. 
 
 Now the mean, no wild assumption, 
 We will warrant worthy well 
 
 Of a clean and mild presumption 
 Trusting truth to try to tell. 
 
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 All the Stars by slow additions 
 
 Gradually greater grow. 
 Time debars by no conditions 
 
 Stern statistics standing so. 
 
 Heat with mass alike increasing 
 
 As attractions atoms add, 
 Star lives pass not likely ceasing 
 
 Free from foolish freezing fad. 
 
 From their surface gauged by squaring 
 
 Rays redundant radiate, 
 Which like purpose waged unsparing 
 
 Space sparse spangled spatiate. 
 
 Volumes more than areas gaining, 
 Moving masses mainly make 
 
 Heat to store, which, e'er remaining, 
 Torrid temper tends to take. 
 
 Why within the earth is heated. 
 Question querists quibbling quite, 
 
 What they win of worth, defeated, 
 Rarely reasoning really right. 
 
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 Moon and sun by side attraction 
 Cause in crumbling crowning crust 
 
 Heating done by tidal action 
 
 Through the thermal thickness thrust. 
 
 Moons are cold, the planets warmer, 
 Silent star suns scorching send 
 
 Heat untold more than the former. 
 Each enlarging, equals end. 
 
 As from steam the raindrops forming 
 Dripping, drizzling, downward drop ; 
 
 So in streaming trains earth storming 
 Sparkling star specks stranded stop. 
 
 Stars thus grow by laws unchanging 
 
 Heating hotter, heated hot. 
 It is so. One Cause arranging 
 
 Laws long lasting lofty lot. 
 
 Then the flashing ones that vary 
 Brightly burn by bursting bond ; 
 
 Like our dashing sons unwary 
 Dudish dickeys duly donned. 
 
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 From these suns less dense in matter 
 Growing gasy getting great, 
 
 All at once off thence may scatter 
 Substance in some super-state. 
 
 Thus inverse this cosmic story, 
 
 Rationale repeating round, 
 Times reversed because more hoary, 
 
 Gladly gaining goodly ground. 
 
 Not begun and still not ending 
 
 Time transforms teetotally. 
 What is done. His Will intending, 
 
 Ever ends eternally. 
 
 Hence the plan we see at present 
 
 As assurance answers all 
 Seems for man to be most pleasant 
 
 Fearing future frightful fall. 
 
 We can tell when mites we number 
 Wherefore whirling worlds will wax. 
 
 All is well if nights we slumber. 
 Love long lasting little lacks. 
 
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 But to show the way eternal 
 Trust to time's triumphant test. 
 
 Wait, if slow that day supernal, 
 Bearing bravely being best. 
 
 RIGHT AND TRUTH 
 
 Chorus: — 
 
 For us the polar star 
 
 Eternal vigil keeps 
 While southern cross gleams far 
 
 An antipode on deeps. 
 The constellations bright 
 
 In zodiac may shine 
 On all with changing light 
 
 They rise but soon decline. 
 
 Thus men and nations rise 
 
 And sink again to dust, 
 While right in cloudless skies 
 
 And truth command our trust. 
 The stormy deep of life 
 
 By these bright guiding stars, 
 We cross through pain and strife 
 
 And safely pass its bars. 
 
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 No change of day or night 
 
 Can dim their lasting glow, 
 As high above us right 
 
 Out shines all wrong below ; 
 And truth eternal stands 
 
 A guard though deep concealed, 
 And though in distant lands 
 
 Its lustre be revealed. 
 
 Guide: — 
 
 We next shall be taught by the power of will 
 How all things are wrought by omnipotence still, 
 For Jupiter meant God the father to all 
 E'er worst came to worst and our race came to 
 fall. 
 
 ONE ONLY RULES 
 
 Representing 21 
 
 Unchanging are the laws of God, 
 
 For all His ways are right, 
 And though He wields a heavy rod 
 
 The atoms feel His might. 
 
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 Through time's eternal ceaseless change 
 
 His Will remains the same; 
 And through all space's unbounded range 
 
 All beings own His name. 
 
 To know His ways we need not seek 
 
 For strange uncommon acts, 
 From doubtful supernatural freak, 
 
 But learn of common facts. 
 
 From everything and everywhere 
 
 We learn the selfsame laws 
 And common things with common care 
 
 Best prove the primal cause. 
 
 That cause we know is always One 
 
 Who guides our erring feet, 
 For when at length our strife is done 
 
 We see that all was meet. 
 
 But One I say and well I may 
 
 For hope and vain desire 
 Are all of will our hearts obey 
 
 Until we seek the higher. 
 
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 Now hopes well based on perfect plans — 
 Such plans as are most wise — 
 
 Arc nearest wrought by Him who scans 
 The schemes our hearts devise. 
 
 Some dwellers on an atom taught 
 That all creation homage brought 
 
 To them, 
 Because the things they sought 
 Were mostly what their money bought, 
 And so they thought that all was wrought 
 
 For them. 
 
 But they were not so wise 
 
 As they appeared to selfish eyes 
 
 At least, 
 And nature's cool disguise 
 Had kept the secret of their size, 
 Until their lies which truth defies 
 
 Decreased. 
 
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 And then these creatures found 
 
 How slight their reason small their ground 
 
 For brags, 
 And now they look around 
 To see what glory may redound 
 If kingly crowned or silken gowned 
 
 In rags ; 
 
 For people after all 
 
 Are sometimes clad both great and small 
 
 In these. 
 Whatever may befall 
 
 As babes they crawl they spew and squall 
 And so withal men rise and fall 
 To please 
 
 Some other being yet 
 
 And in the end themselves forget, 
 
 When lo. 
 The great I am " has set 
 A limit net to joy and fret, 
 They now regret life's needless debt 
 
 Of woe. 
 
84 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 Deep in the nature of all mankind 
 
 Lie the truths of life that the race has 
 discovered. 
 Often their promptings incite the blind 
 
 Who may feel their way till life's path be 
 recovered. 
 
 Faith is a guide if that faith be true 
 
 And well founded in right which the feelings 
 can sanction. 
 Error in this some will surely rue 
 
 When they miss in the future a heavenly 
 mansion. 
 
 Mansions of life are the soul's abode 
 
 For the quickening spirits of blest ones to 
 enter — 
 
 Not for the selfish with sinful load 
 
 Since the spirit's true bliss in its loved ones 
 must center. 
 
 Straight is the way through the narrow gate 
 And but few may attain to the life they are 
 seeking, 
 
 Naught but destruction, the bad await 
 
 Till they feel the swift vengeance stern justice 
 is wreaking. 
 
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 Life thou must seek that with love is j&lled 
 For the love of thy fathers to all has been 
 given ; 
 
 Good thou must seek till thy heart be stilled, 
 And thou findest in children the kingdom of 
 heaven. 
 
 THE VOICE OF OUR FATHERS 
 
 Chorus: — 
 
 In my heart, in my heart, 
 
 A voice is calling loud — 
 Calls for song — calls so long, 
 
 Such yearnings be allowed. 
 From the past it comes to me, 
 Now at last I hear and see. 
 
 Let us all heed the call 
 
 That comes so clear and true. 
 
 We are told men of old 
 
 Have bled for me and you. 
 
 Let us keep the good they gave, 
 
 Let us reap, and let us save. 
 
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 Children we all must be 
 
 Of noble sires and good. 
 Happy lot, ne'er forgot, 
 
 But little understood ! 
 Yes their love supplies our needs 
 As the dove its young one feeds. 
 
 Through the will ruling still 
 They guide our wayward feet ; 
 
 They can chide, they decide 
 And wrong in us defeat. 
 
 We should know their care is sure, 
 High or low their love is pure. 
 
 Bells may toll for the soul 
 Or ring both loud and clear, 
 
 But the way spirits say 
 
 They left this mortal sphere, 
 
 Was in health while life was sweet, 
 Not by stealth cold death to grtet. 
 
 Sparks may creep, flames can leap. 
 All life can grow and spread, 
 
 Heed my words. Life affords 
 One path for all to tread. 
 
 It is straight and narrow too, 
 
 Be not late to choose the true. 
 
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 CREDO 
 
 Candidate: — 
 
 I believe in one Father almighty, director of all, 
 But conceive of Him rather from right and 
 
 correctly withal 
 Since His ways are most just and the same for 
 
 all time and all space. 
 He betrays not my trust for my aim is to climb 
 
 in His grace. 
 
 While no man by bold art can portray His true 
 
 form or His mind. 
 Yet we can with pure heart still obey though 
 
 the storm without blind, 
 Since He tells us within of His goodness and 
 
 justice His cause. 
 Where He dwells is no sin for the good place 
 
 their trust in His laws. 
 
 Not in books nor in men nor in aught they have 
 
 said do I trust 
 For it looks as if then were I caught and were 
 
 led by their lust. 
 
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 Or perhaps by some scheme they have planned 
 
 to control all my means, 
 By their traps which they deem I will stand 
 
 paying toll to their deans. 
 
 Never so for one master I own and no more 
 
 will I choose. 
 High, or low, first, as last, though alone and 
 
 pressed sore, I will loose 
 All the earth but will not for a moment desert 
 
 what is right. 
 Of what worth were my lot should I know that 
 
 Thou wert not my light. 
 
 Oh thou spirit of man and thou soul of our 
 
 mothers give heed. 
 Be ye near as ye can and console all our brothers 
 
 in need. 
 
 For our way is not long on the journey of life 
 to its end ; 
 
 Keep us gay is my song and from worry and 
 strife e'er defend. 
 
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 FURTHER LIGHT 
 
 Guide: — 
 
 In tracing a star from points seven in number, 
 Three orders are found without changing rote. 
 These forms we explain lest thy mind we 
 encumber 
 
 With reasons unfounded or thoughts remote. 
 
 The first is the order wherein is developed 
 The powers of nature we now will show. 
 
 First, infinite Will, God the Father enveloped 
 In mystery deep, rules the high and low. 
 
 His son that He guides throughout all creation, 
 Is light of all light and the sun of suns — 
 
 Vis viva pervading through every formation— 
 For power almighty through nature runs. 
 
 The third is the planning whereby the designer 
 Completes the grand unit the great triune — 
 
 The order of space is thus rendered diviner, 
 Whence truth and perception and last the 
 moon. 
 
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 And time is the last to be ever engendered 
 For never complete can this eon be, 
 
 So being for all will be never endangered 
 
 While birth of the youngest brings endless 
 glee. 
 
 Beginning with this comes the order of planets. 
 
 This ending with space, we then will learn 
 Why days of the week help to prove the grand 
 tenets 
 
 By leading up steps we must take in turn. 
 
 The planet design is of circles concentered — 
 
 We figure again from our trestleboard, 
 And deep was the reasoning someone once 
 entered 
 
 As shown from the works of the past restored. 
 
 For space is the outer and time is the inner. 
 As one all embraces the other is all embraced — 
 
 The moon in the center with planets about her 
 Embracing, embraced in the order traced. 
 
 Exclusion, inclusion, and juxtaposition. 
 The order we find in this planet scheme, 
 
 Give proof a law of essential relation 
 
 As found throughout nature once known we 
 deem. 
 
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 ABRAXAS 
 
 The pyramid too is a symbol we use 
 
 To show thee how firmly our reasons are 
 founded. 
 
 May life from the past through thy veins still 
 infuse 
 
 New hope for the future on certainty grounded. 
 
 So broad is the basis that nature has laid, — 
 So grand the foundation of earth and of heaven, 
 
 That space can alone be never gainsaid 
 
 In time the prerequisite truth of the seven. 
 
 This fact must have moved the great sages of old 
 Who built the strange temples of worship to 
 planets 
 
 To rear them in stages like truths which they 
 told, 
 
 The object of all things raised high on their 
 summits. 
 
 Thus each in its place bore relations defined 
 To all that below it or over it rested, 
 
 While those underneath were all needed in kind, 
 To hold up the rest in the place they were 
 tested. 
 
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 WORK OF THE MYSTIC SEVEN 
 
 These truths are so boundless — withal so distinct 
 No doubt can be raised of their infinite nature, 
 And break is not found when in chains they are 
 linked, 
 
 By metaposition arranged peradventure. 
 
 Does anyone hint that sevens once sealed 
 In mystic Apocolypse ever denoted 
 
 What Babel's great tower to Accad revealed, 
 His thoughts to improvement were better 
 devoted. 
 
 But when thou hast gained the summit of lore, 
 Just glance for a moment to what is suggested 
 
 And see for thyself pearls that prophets of yore 
 Cast not before swine lest they all be molested. 
 
 Behold these perfections are there to be found. 
 The spirits of God they are called in allusion, 
 
 United as infinites firmly are bound — 
 Ineffable One as we find in conclusion. 
 
 The vaulted blue we now review 
 Where Saturn wields the sceptre. 
 
 There rays of light illume its night 
 To banish every spectre. 
 
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 93 
 
 From tiny mite through awful height, 
 These rays have searched creation ; 
 
 So they should tell who know so well 
 Prime truths and their relation. 
 
 RESUME IN THIRD ORDER 
 
 >2 The rays of light from stars above, 
 
 Disclose what wonders there abound, 
 
 And thus inspiring nature's love 
 
 They fill the mind with thoughts profound, 
 But clearly prove there is no bound 
 
 To space through which they ever rove. 
 
 Thus from the starry crown of night 
 
 Has come to us an aged ray, 
 And since he truly speaks with light 
 
 Oh ponder well his words, I pray ; 
 
 For ancient light reveals the way 
 That leads to wisdom, joy, and right. 
 
 Ray representing $ : — 
 
 From distant parts and times remote 
 I come with light to greet mankind 
 And human welfare to promote, 
 
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 That all who seek the truth may find 
 A worthy treasure for the mind 
 By weighing all my words denote. 
 
 In ancient times the stars were known 
 As mystic symbols to the sage 
 
 Whose secrets lost the wise bemoan. 
 Five planets since the golden age 
 With sun and moon our thoughts engage. 
 
 These move like lamps around a throne. 
 
 That they were named from truths of God 
 Their worship in the temple tells. 
 
 In ruins buried 'neath the sod 
 
 The tower of Babel's mystic spells 
 The errors of the past dispells, 
 
 For planet priests its pavement trod. 
 
 The son of space is king of all 
 
 As naught escapes his vast domain. 
 
 He calmly smiles on great and small 
 That strive to soar, alas, in vain ; 
 But happy world does not disdain 
 
 And thus has praised this tiny ball. — 
 
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 * ' Fair Eden is a trysting place 
 
 With blooming fields by waters blue 
 
 Where nature coyly and with grace 
 Unfolds her virgin charms to view. 
 All joy in life is there for you 
 
 For me the cold, cold realms of space." h 
 
 But mingled with good there is also much 
 evil 
 
 For here in the world which indeed is fair 
 Some people we find while apparently civil 
 Are never content with an honest share. 
 
 Not knowing what change may befall them 
 to-morrow 
 
 They wrongfully seek for their selfish 
 gain, 
 
 And casting on others a burden of sorrow 
 By just retribution must suffer pain. 
 
 For change is the master of every condition 
 As such after space we should laud that 
 might 
 
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 Whose sword smites tlie haughty to humble 
 contrition 
 
 Destroying the evil enthroning the right. 
 
 While caused by vis viva or something in 
 motion 
 
 In all of its forms it is found the same 
 As light, heat, expansion, electric condition, 
 In color, and hardness, or chemical flame. 
 
 The ancients declaring the sun was its 
 symbol 
 
 As all kinds of energy come from thence 
 Devoted a court that was grand in the 
 temple 
 
 Of spheres, unto him as a consequence. 
 
 By doing some good should all means be 
 expanded 
 
 Lest power unearned may the eye bedim. 
 Men better by far seek the right empty- 
 handed 
 
 Than work for the devil and get but him. 
 
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 They tell me that man is now gaining new powers 
 Already his Knowledge has greater range. 
 
 But all his ambition's most beautiful towers 
 Must yield to vis viva the cause of change. 0 
 
 3) Now there is an olden story 
 
 Told of men among the stars, 
 How they used to seek for glory 
 For wealth and envied fame 
 
 Not by toil and honored scars 
 But ways of sin and shame. 
 
 And in wealth and vaunted power 
 Some of them became so rich 
 
 That they forced the rest to cower 
 
 As slaves beneath their feet. 
 But there came a day in which 
 
 They suffered sore defeat. 
 
 Thus has Time our hoary father, 
 Dealt with all his children proud. 
 
 Blessing now a lowly brother 
 
 He seals the wicked's doom 
 And enfolds him with a shroud 
 
 In dark oblivion's tomb. 
 
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 But before this sordid era 
 
 Was the happy golden age 
 When the people's hearts were nearer, 
 Secure in peace and love 
 
 From the tyrant's awful rage — 
 From falcon's like the dove. 
 
 Wisdom all their ways inspired, 
 Not the purse of Mammon's guile, 
 
 Oft by force and fraud acquired, 
 
 Nor did the wicked rise 
 High in place and there revile 
 
 The innocent or wise. 
 
 Well they taught that human power 
 Like the moon must wax and wane — 
 
 Like the sweetness of a flower 
 
 Must come and go for aye. 
 Through the flight of years in vain 
 
 One seeks that former day. 
 
 Moving onward is the present 
 
 From the past forever gone 
 To the future, sad or pleasant. 
 With justice most sublime 
 
 Weighing out results upon 
 Remorseless scales of time, a 
 
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 99 
 
 9 I am a ray that speaks with light 
 But I speak with gravity too. 
 I tell the source of all delight 
 
 And the work that all have to do. 
 
 I tell the earth of yonder sun 
 
 And she winds around him her clue. 
 
 The spheres have known since time begun 
 That my word has always been true. 
 
 Forever onward do I speed 
 
 With vis viva giving me strength. 
 
 Each whirling atom will I heed 
 
 Long as time may last with its length. 
 
 Eight times around the earth I go 
 
 While your heart is once heard to beat. 
 
 What think you when I call it slow 
 
 To convey through space light and heat? 
 
 How many truths I bring to you 
 For I tell whereof stars are made — 
 
 Reflect their image in the dew. 
 Was I ever fairly gainsaid? 
 
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 I tell of planets moon and sun 
 
 Of their course the ancients well knew ; 
 And named them from the facts that run 
 
 Ail-throughout the universe true. 
 
 The first three parts of nature known 
 And the fourth is clear as the day. 
 
 First where, whereby, and when were shown 
 Now the truth's etherial ray. ^ 
 
 How sweet is the song of the songster ! 
 
 How fair is the blush of a maiden 1 
 How grand is the work of a master ! 
 
 Such sweetness and melodies gladden 
 The heart and ennoble the listener 
 
 With gleams from a soul that is hidden. 
 
 Like leaven in dough that is kneaded, 
 This spirit of harmony spreading 
 
 Developes its likeness unheeded, 
 
 Till forces discordant are blending — 
 
 Where grossness and evil existed 
 
 Are peace and enjoyment abounding. 
 
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 Enjoined to the present this spirit 
 
 Contemplates the past and the future. 
 
 It shapes the fair forms we inherit 
 And makes the desig;ns of all nature 
 
 Adorning the whole with its merit 
 From snowflake to human adventure. 
 
 Let man thus rejoice in his nature 
 So perfectly wrought for his being 
 
 And carefully guard for the future 
 All motives, from sinfulness freeing 
 
 His life ; for this holiest treasure 
 
 His forefathers left to their offspring. 
 
 Who then would destroy his own powers? 
 
 Or leave to his children but weakness ! 
 Not he in whose heart love embowers 
 
 With impulse for good and discreetness — 
 Whose thoughts when life's thunder cloud 
 lowers 
 
 Turn back to his mother in meekness. 
 
 Then keep the soul pure for your children 
 
 Which ancestors kept for your welfare 
 For theirs is the kingdom of heaven." 
 
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 You knew that your soul would go some- 
 where 
 
 But never the right guess have given. 
 May peace be your lot when you get there. 
 
 This leaven of life is immortal 
 Renewing itself as by spreading, 
 
 And all reunites at death's portal 
 
 Like raindrops in rivers commingling. 
 
 No accident ever so fatal 
 
 Destroys the soul that is living. ^ 
 
 11 Yet nobody's plan that was ever constructed 
 Worked out just the way that person 
 designed, 
 
 With just enough difference in wisdom con- 
 ducted 
 
 To prove it was done by infinite mind ; 
 
 For when it most seems that a bad plan will 
 prosper 
 
 The worst of all evil turned in its course 
 
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 Bounds back like a boomerang hurting its 
 thrower. 
 
 Bad luck to the knave who uses much force ! 
 
 Thus all of the factors of life work together 
 The end being good for him who plans 
 well ; 
 
 While every event proves there is but one 
 Author, 
 
 What plans He will follow, no one can tell. 
 
 So men should be brought into cooperation 
 Each having a share as good as the rest. 
 
 As cells in one body all serve for protection 
 When each shall be useful all will be blest. 
 
 With stocks and with checks and a limited 
 credit, 
 
 Each ruling the share he earns for himself, 
 Relations are settled with no one to debit 
 And silver and gold are laid on the shelf. 
 
 For man as we know cannot work for two 
 masters 
 
 And serve them in heart and truth all his 
 life. 
 
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 The power of one must prevent all disasters 
 And lead to perfection 'mid error and strife. 
 
 His power is law throughout all creation 
 
 Which finite designs unite to fulfill. 
 All change for each moment is under pro- 
 bation 
 
 Of infinite Wisdom's infinite will. J/ 
 
 In every change of life or death 
 There is a joy or great relief 
 
 Which all may feel in every breath, 
 If they will have sincere belief 
 
 In perfect wisdom's perfect plan 
 
 And cling to that the best they can. 
 
 For joy and pain come last of all. 
 
 In them is found the reason why 
 All things exist both great and small. 
 
 Not joy for self but joy on high 
 Must be the trend of all desire 
 That wins the price of godly hire. 
 
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 So man should live for joy on earth 
 And wealth be used for public good 
 
 While ruled by those who prove their worth 
 For private need well understood — 
 
 Small sums bestowed on all concerned 
 
 But naught transferred direct till earned. 
 
 For wealth not earned is easy lost 
 
 And fills the world with fraud and scheme. 
 
 To seize the reins at smallest cost 
 
 And drive the steeds is envy's dream, 
 
 But when they once have lost their course 
 
 These human steeds resist all force. 
 
 Rich girls and beaux may be the rage 
 Since wealth may make them wondrous 
 fine. 
 
 What pity when they reach old age 
 
 To find the world has lost its shine ! 
 For steady growth to power should give 
 The means to rule while one may live. 
 
 And so before I bid adieu 
 
 To earth, fair home of selfish men, 
 These primal truths will I review. 
 
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 For man has known and may again 
 The where, whereby, when, what, and how, 
 The must and why I tell you now. 
 
 Through all, these secrets, deep, are laid, 
 From insect life to stars that gleam ; 
 
 Then read the book that ne'er betrayed — 
 Its name is nature, love, its theme; 
 
 Its hero, man, his life its toy ; 
 
 Its Author, God ; its end, His joy. 9 
 
 $ ADIEU 
 
 Ray representing $ : — 
 
 If any man with mind so clear 
 
 Can read the book his sires have penned 
 
 In his own nature — thought most dear — 
 He knows the facts my words defend. 
 
 And he who knows the past may scan 
 The future through the veil of sleep 
 
 When he shall join his brother man 
 And from his joys a harvest reap. 
 
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 107 
 
 Eacli day should call to mind my words — 
 
 Vis viva, Sunday, Monday, time; 
 For this, the sun to all affords. 
 
 And that recalls the moon sublime. 
 
 Then Tiw in Tuesday follows next, 
 Or Mars the war god comes along. 
 
 Whose spear and dart his foemen vexed, 
 
 While winged thought is Wednesday's song. 
 
 Then Thor or Jove the ruling will. 
 
 With Freya, Friday, Venus' day, 
 The last we trace to Saturn still 
 
 Whose father Coelus leads the way. 
 
 These thoughts recall the golden age 
 
 When men enjoyed a happy life, 
 And may they its return presage 
 
 And men again forsake their strife. - 
 
 For o'er a chasm deep and wide 
 The narrow bridge of life extends, 
 
 And those who reach the other side 
 
 May learn the rest. My story ends. $ 
 
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 Guide concludes: — 
 
 These are the thoughts a ray of light 
 
 More ancient than the works of man 
 Suggest, and may they bring delight 
 
 To those who toil in rear or van. 
 In doubt or darkness pain or grief 
 Faith hope and love are sure relief. 
 
 Not faith in man but faith in God 
 Whose gracious will our hope fulfills, 
 
 Illumes the paths our fathers trod 
 To endless life ; but error fills 
 
 This life with stings no tongue can tell 
 
 If love doth not within us dwell. 
 
 How sacred is the trust of life 
 
 That from our natal hour to death 
 
 We keep with guarding instinct rife 
 Lest sin destroy this fleeting breath. 
 
 Ancestral virtue, honor's might 
 
 Should be our offsprings holy right. 
 
 Unshielded by the power of wealth 
 
 Let each one prove his worth by hire. 
 Let all he saves by strength aud health 
 
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 While wisdom craft and all conspire 
 Return him income, try that worth, 
 But serve mankind alike at birth. 
 
 Upon this rock our house must stand 
 
 While seething floods of wrong sweep by — 
 
 No longer built upon the sand 
 We raise its turrets to the sky 
 
 And hail the coming day of light 
 
 Just dawning as our ray takes flight. 
 
 A ray of light through gloom and night, 
 A beacon gleaming far and wide, 
 
 A smile of love from beauty bright 
 That wins a sweetheart to its side. 
 
 Is well proved truth to waning faith 
 
 That guides the soul along life's path. 
 
 When questions that all minds propound 
 Are answered in the order named, 
 
 Their logic in themselves profound 
 Unfolds the gnostic eons famed, 
 
 And leads us to the goal of love 
 
 Through faith and hope in One above. 
 
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 CLOSING CHORAL 
 
 Chorus: — 
 
 Awake, arise, return to mortal vision ! 
 The world defies and calls for firm decision. 
 Improve the soul and keep thy body healthy ; 
 Make good the whole and thus be truly wealthy. 
 
 Within life's sphere is room for every blessing. 
 From childhood dear with mother's hand caress- 
 ing 
 
 To manhood strong now virtue's brave defender. 
 How like a song, good works, this life, can 
 render ! 
 
 We charge thee keep the precious vital powers 
 And thou shalt reap a garnered sheaf in bowers. 
 Behold, O man, thy glorious round of living! 
 Partake, who can, the joys, its fruits are giving! 
 
 Preserve the truth, the false and wrong abandon. 
 The right, forsooth, is firmest ground to stand 
 on. 
 
 Consider well the path thy steps should follow, 
 The mean to tell betwixt the height and hollow. 
 
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 Let each one earn his rights among his fellows 
 That all may learn how hardship hard hearts 
 mellows, 
 
 And how the weak develop mind and muscle 
 When life they seek amidst the wide world's 
 bustle. 
 
 That love obtain its choice of heart unfettered 
 By thought of gain in purse or station bettered, 
 Do thou despise vain titles sot's inherit 
 And dearly prize a life of worth and merit. 
 
 We hail thee, man, and trust these lessons 
 ended 
 
 Will aid that plan of life our sires defended. — 
 Now take thy stand upon these truths most 
 hoary 
 
 And lend thy hand to help the cause of glory. 
 
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 SLEEP 
 
 SLEEP 
 
 When sadness most o'ercomes us 
 
 And hopes long cherished fail, 
 Dull worriment benumbs us 
 
 The light of love grows pale, 
 Exhausted then with sorrow 
 
 We turn at last to sleep 
 Not knowing what the morrow 
 
 In store for us may keep. 
 
 Bright visions soon surround us 
 
 To soothe our aching nerves, 
 Our dream friends too have found us 
 
 While sleep our strength preserves. 
 Where grim day visions hovered 
 
 A background rich may form 
 With dreamland's pictures covered 
 
 Like sunshine after storm. 
 
 Sweet sleep restores good humor 
 And gives us heart to live, 
 
 To bear with ruthless rumor, 
 And erewhile foes forgive. 
 
 We thus should guard our slumbers. 
 
THE PILL PEDLER'S PLEA 
 
 Keep mind and body sound, 
 With life attuned to numbers 
 That health and joy abound. 
 
 THE PILL PEDLER'S PLEA 
 
 One part of Bible creed 
 Some doctors never heed— 
 
 Those who are well do not need a physician." 
 Truth let them tell though it lead to confession. 
 
 One talks to himself: — 
 
 It makes nobody weep 
 And no one loses sleep, — 
 Only a pill it will keep off the worry 
 Lest they be ill and their people be sorry." 
 
 To his patients: — 
 
 Beware what food you eat 
 And never taste of meat, 
 
 Then you must know nothing sweet is quite 
 proper. 
 
 When you are so be discreet with your supper." 
 
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 THE PILL PEDLER'S PLEA 
 
 To himself again: — 
 
 For some are never well 
 And thus their fears to quell 
 Who is not willing to tell what will please them. 
 Think of the bill it will swell to appease them." 
 
 * * The ladies call us good ; 
 
 They surely never would, 
 
 If we perchance ever should by commission 
 
 Tell at a glance as we could their condition." 
 
 How many doctors take 
 
 This fool's advice and shake — 
 
 Never disclose when they make diagnoses 
 
 Health unto those who will take down their doses ! 
 
 And so the preachers plead 
 Let all the people heed — 
 Those who are well do not need a physician." 
 Churches and prelates, come, lead the procession ! 
 
 For that advice he gave 
 Who taught you how to save 
 Souls that are weak, not the brave and the 
 righteous. 
 
 Life let us seek not the grave which will hide us. 
 
THE PRIEST AND HOUSEWIFE II5 
 
 Now, when the world is wise, 
 
 And people use their eyes, 
 
 Fools are the cast to disguise their opinion. 
 
 Truth comes at last when the wise hold dominion. 
 
 THE PRIEST AND HOUSEWIFE 
 
 A doughty priest of high repute 
 Imbued with all his sacred lore, 
 
 Betook himself to find the root 
 Of evil which had grieved him sore. 
 
 A rustic housewife first he met 
 
 Unbent his lordly mien, and asked, — 
 What cares and evils most beset 
 Thy lot with hardships tasked? " 
 
 Quoth she, — I have a wicked hen 
 That grieves me much of late ; 
 
 She will go back to sit again 
 
 Although I doused her pesky pate." 
 
Il6 THE PRIEST AND HOUSEWIFE 
 
 To which the priest at once replied, — 
 
 * • No doubt baptism will save the souls, 
 In sinful men where they reside 
 
 But wicked hens no law controls." 
 
 " I'll teach her yet" — the woman said, 
 
 * * She knows enough to fight her way 
 And watch her chance to get ahead, 
 
 I'll put her where she'll have to stay." 
 
 And thus this senseless hen immure. 
 Good woman? " said the priest. I fear 
 Thy heart with sin is yet impure. 
 For thy salvation came I here." 
 
 ** Then catch that hen at once for me 
 And save me all this needless fuss. 
 
 Thy mother's son should never see 
 Her likeness grieved by such a muss." 
 
 The humble prelate meekly sought 
 To catch that wicked sitting hen. 
 
 Among the coops the chase was fought 
 With trials hard for scribe to pen. 
 
THE PRIEST AND HOUSEWIFE II7 
 
 At last with hands all pecked and scratched, 
 He brought her forth with pains and care. 
 
 His deftness had been doubly matched 
 By housewife's word and hen's despair. 
 
 And now to extricate himself 
 From such confusion all around, 
 
 He left the woman to herself, 
 
 With heart unchanged as he had found. 
 
 He mused while going home that day, 
 ** The root of evil is explained, — 
 
 All creatures want to have their way 
 And someone thus is always pained. 
 
 * * The hen was right with sense or not 
 To seek her nest and hatch her brood ; 
 
 The housewife too had not forgot 
 Her children needed eggs for food. 
 
 ' ' But all are slow to understand 
 
 The needs which others greatly feel. 
 
 My work hereafter shall be planned 
 To help those who for help appeal." 
 
Il8 THE COMMONWEAL HYMN 
 
 THE COMMONWEAL HYMN 
 
 WRITTEN APRIL I 8, I 894 
 
 Why plods over hills in the snow and through 
 valleys 
 
 With odds and great ills as we know in the 
 way, 
 
 A throng that now fills all the byways and alleys 
 With song such as thrills men who try to be 
 gay? 
 
 They gather as lost ones to seek their salvation, 
 Would rather be tossed by the bleak sea of 
 fate, 
 
 Than meet with such cost as their home's des- 
 olation, 
 
 So great the chill frost as they roam from its 
 gate. 
 
 Is f reecom a curse ? Were our fathers mistaken ? 
 And we thus the worse since we are their own 
 sons? 
 
 Or will this reverse amidst plenty awaken 
 
 Men willing to nurse what was lent by their 
 guns ? 
 
WHO ARE COSMOPOLITAN? I I9 
 
 Once more we will take a firm step to more 
 forward, 
 
 This corps shall awake what has slept in men's 
 hearts, 
 
 For freedom must make commonweal its grand 
 war word. 
 
 Or flee from the wake of cold steel and fell arts. 
 
 And now once again let us cling to our nation 
 And vow we are men as we sing a new 
 hymn. 
 
 The world may know then why we spurn its 
 damnation 
 
 And hurl deuce to den as we turn unto Him. 
 
 WHO ARE COSMOPOLITAN? 
 
 Of those who had the pleasure 
 
 Of viewing the World's Columbian Exposition, 
 No doubt are some who treasure 
 
 Remembrance of things unique in their com- 
 position. 
 
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 WHO ARE COSMOPOLITAN? 
 
 And naught perhaps was stranger 
 
 Than Taoist designs demonstrating their 
 religion. 
 Of sin they showed the danger 
 
 And heaven was also pictured, — a happy- 
 region. 
 
 Here all the nations gather 
 
 Beneath the eternal smiles of our Morgol Pater. 
 Of course our friends would rather 
 
 Have God in their image. Would He not thus 
 be greater? 
 
 *' Oh yes," our guide is saying, 
 
 For we are more cosmopolitan than are 
 Christians. 
 You see all nations playing 
 
 On harps in our heaven — things never taught 
 at missions — 
 
 The wise are thus confounded. 
 
 Perhaps we will go at last to a monkey heaven 
 When Gabriel's horn is sounded, 
 
 And then understand the parables of meal 
 and leaven. 
 
so SAYS THE DOCTOR 
 
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 What right has man pretending 
 
 That he is the only creature that lives here- 
 after? 
 
 Does not all life extending 
 
 Renew for itself its being in form thereafter? 
 
 And if both souls and bodies 
 
 Thereby are renewed, why surely this ex- 
 planation 
 Would give a chance for monkeys 
 
 To pose in a cosmopolitan monkey nation. 
 
 Or, giving place to wisdom, 
 
 We come to the more appropriate in con- 
 clusion, — 
 That God's eternal Kingdom 
 
 Has made for all life eternity no delusion. 
 
 SO SAYS THE DOCTOR 
 
 Useless things that people want 
 They had better never have, 
 So says the doctor. 
 
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 SO SAYS THE DOCTOR 
 
 Rounds and revels rich folks vaunt 
 
 Squalls and squabbles poor ones have^ 
 Then call the doctor. 
 
 Toothsome bits of dainty trash, 
 Peaches, apples, yet too green, 
 Make work for doctors. 
 Sweetened milk with sour hash 
 For a babe too young to wean 
 Brings in the doctors. 
 
 Careful living steady ways. 
 Homely comforts always best, 
 Need not the doctor. 
 Sleep for nights and work for days 
 Needful change and sometimes rest, 
 Help out the doctor. 
 
 Not for rich and not for poor 
 Are the blessings all bestowed. 
 So says the doctor. 
 Healthful life is very sure 
 Soon to find the happy road. 
 So says the doctor. 
 
BABY WANTS THE MOON 
 
 Road to life that narrow way ! 
 Few there be that find it quick 
 Without a doctor. 
 Live correctly day by day 
 
 But when errors make you sick, 
 Call in the doctor. 
 
 BABY WANTS THE MOON 
 
 My baby claps his hands 
 As he feels in happy mood, 
 
 When in my lap he lands 
 
 And he pulls my hair so rude. 
 
 The moon up in the sky 
 Is shining sweetly down. 
 
 But why does baby cry 
 
 Till his ma begins to frown ? 
 
 The cause is found full soon 
 When baby reaches out, 
 
 He surely wants the moon 
 And he will not do without. 
 
A PICTURE FROM LIFE 
 
 " How like his dad lie seems, 
 And how like his ma he is." 
 
 Just now he cries, he screams. 
 And he pulls my hair. Gee whiz ! 
 
 But after all we see 
 
 He is like the human race , — 
 At first all filled with glee 
 
 But he soon makes wry his face. 
 
 And all because he wants 
 A delight quite out of reach. 
 
 Our nature there confronts 
 
 Us. We find ourselves to teach. 
 
 A PICTURE FROM LIFE 
 
 Little Lizard lingers lazily 
 
 In the sun beside a leaf, 
 Moody, moping, moving mazily. 
 
 Slow in action past belief. 
 
 Speckled Spider spins beside of him 
 Never heeding who is there 
 
 Foolish Fly feels free from fear of them 
 Seeing all so still and fair. 
 
VESPER 125 
 
 Tightly tangled, truly terrible 
 
 Now the fly has met his fate, 
 Hardly heeding how his horrible 
 
 Foe has caught him till too late. 
 
 Naughty nature knowing knavishness, 
 
 Taught the lizard also tricks. 
 Brute beguiling brate by brutishness 
 
 In his mouth the spider licks. 
 
 Feigning, fierce for foul ferocity, 
 
 Act the foes of every race. 
 Shrewdly showing sharp sagacity 
 
 Even man his source may trace. 
 
 VESPER (SAPPHO) 
 
 "E<77rc/9€ irdvTa <j>epei(; oaa ^aivo\i^ 
 
 e(TK4haa avco<;, 
 My a <rif olv re <f)€p€i<iy a-v <\)€peL^ 
 
 Kol fiarepL iralSa. 
 
 " O Vesper, thou bringest all home 
 That the light of the morning doth scatter — 
 
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 VESPER 
 
 The kids and the lambkins that roam, 
 Baby footsteps to mother now patter." 
 
 How sweetly these thoughts to us come 
 From the poems of Lesbian Sappho. 
 
 Though her tongue in long silence be dumb 
 May her motherly words nightly echo. 
 
 When evening's bright star first appears, — 
 
 *'o"V <l>€p€L<; Koi /jLarepL TralBa.'' 
 Her song may still hush baby's tears — 
 
 And thou bringest my child back to mother." 
 
INDEX 
 
 Fable of the Wolves, i i 
 
 Instinct, 13 
 
 Uncle Beck — An Ex-slave, 15 
 
 A River Dream, 17 
 
 Work of the Mystic Seven, 20 
 
 Apology, 20 
 
 Candidate Entering, 22 
 
 A Voice From Within, 22 
 
 Oath, 24 
 
 Opening Song, 26 
 
 A Charge, 29 
 
 Hereafter, 31 
 
 The Engendered, 35 
 
 Introducing Hermes, 39 
 
 Prove Wisdom, 41 
 Creation for God's Glory, Not Man's 45 
 
 The Trestleboard, 47 
 
 Whence the Elements, 48 
 
 Star of Wisdom, 50 
 
 Socialism of Love, 51 
 
 Equality the World's Need, 54 
 
 Love's Advice, 56 
 
 Prepare for Light, 58 
 
128 
 
 INDEX 
 
 The Sun's View, 5o 
 
 Atlantis, 6^ 
 
 The Least Wrong May be Fatal, 64 
 
 Life's Path, 6g 
 
 Sun of Righteousness, 67 
 
 Logic of Perpetual Verities, 69 
 
 Truth, 74 
 
 Round of Nature, 74 
 
 Right and Truth. yg 
 
 One Only Rules, 80 
 
 Voice of our Fathers, 85 
 
 Credo. 87 
 
 Further Light — Abraxas. 89 
 
 Resume in Third Order, 93 
 
 S Adieu, 106 
 
 Closing Choral, iio 
 
 Sleep, 112 
 
 The Pill Pedler's Plea, 113 
 
 The Priest and the Housewife, 115 
 
 The Commonweal Hymn, 118 
 
 Who are Cosmopolitan? 119 
 
 So Says THE Doctor, 121 
 
 Baby Wants the Moon, 123 
 
 A Picture From Life, 124 
 
 Vesper (Sappho,) 125