‘We part upon the Square’

     

We part upon the Square,

for the world must have its due,

There’s a world where all are equal;

we are hurrying to it fast,

We shall meet upon the Level there,

when the gates of death are past:

We shall stand before the Orient, and our Master will be there,

To try the blocks we offer by his own unerring Square.*

Bro. Bob was Senior Warden when I affiliated with Publicity Lodge in 2015, and we got to know each other better the following year when he served in the East. Bob died last month after a long brutal illness.

He was a gentle soul who embodied precisely what you would want to see in a Freemason.

I can’t salute him by name here because some of his relations were not to know of his Masonic membership. Sometimes you forget some of your brethren have to finesse that secret.

At our meeting last night, we draped the altar in black and said goodbye. Alas, my brother.

*From an ode among The Masonic Concordia, 1906.