Within your dear mansion may wayward contention
Or withering envy ne'er enter:
May secrecy round be the mystical bound,
And brotherly love be the centre.
Edinburgh, 23 August, 1787.
To The Men And Brethren Of The Masonic Lodge At Tarbolton.
Robert Burns
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