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Short Title Vocal Companion, 1802 
Title Vocal Companion, The. Part I[in 2 parts?] 
Pages 180, 103 
Publisher Dunham, John M., Brother 
Location CtHT, Cty, DLC, MH, MWA, NYHiS/0AoA/WC/Rdx MF 2166 
Date 1802 
Place Boston 
Data Place Rdx S02166 
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Here Wisdom her standard displays (fl) 
Advance each true brother, my song now attend (fl)  10 
While all our nation, whelm'd in grief (fl)  11 
To Heaven's high Architect all praise (fl)  11 
Guardian genius of our art divine (fl)  12 
Open, ye gates, receive the fair, who share (fl)  12 
Come, ye Masons, hither bring (fl)  13-14 
Fidelity once had a fancy to rove (fl)  14-15 
Genius of Masonry, descend (fl)  15-16 
Grant me kind heav'n what I request (fl)  16-17 
How doubly blest the condition (fl)  17-18 
In all your dealings take good care (fl)  18 
In hist'ry we're told, how the lodges of old (fl)  18-19 
Just straight from his home (fl)  20-21 
Let drunkards boast the pow'r of wine (fl)  21-22 
Not the fictions of Greece, nor the dreams of old Rome (fl)  23-24 
On Avon's sweet banks where the silver streams glide (fl)  24-25 
On you who Masonry despise (fl)  25-26 
Some folks have with curious impertinence strove (fl)  26-27 
Though bigots storm, and fools declaim (fl)  27-28 
Tho' my voice can't enchant like the Syrens of old (fl)  28-29 
Thus happily met, united and free (fl)  29 
'Tis Masonry unites mankind (fl)  29-30 
We sing of Mason's ancient fame! (fl)  30-32 
When a lodge of Free-masons are cloth'd in their aprons (fl)  32-33  10 
When Masonry expiring lay, by knaves and fools rejected (fl)  33-34 
When the sun from the east first salutes mortal eyes (fl)  35-36 
Ye dull stupid mortals give o'er your conjectures (fl)  36-37 
All hail! to the morning (fl)  37-38 
Almighty Sire! our heavenly king (fl)  38-39 
I sing the Mason's glory (fl)  39-41 
To the Knight Templar's awful dome (fl)  41-42 
Ere God the universe began (fl)  42-43 
When earth's foundation first was laid (fl)  43-44 
Whilst princes and heroes promiscuously fight (fl)  44 
No sect in the world can with Masons compare (fl)  44-45 
Let Masonry from pole to pole (fl)  45-46 
Ye sons of fair science, impatient to learn (fl)  46-47 
Hail Masonry divine (fl)  47-48 
Come let us prepare (fl)  48-49 
Hail Masonry! thou sacred art (fl)  49-50 
Whilst each poet sings of great princes & kings (fl)  50-51 
Ye gracious powers of choral song (fl)  51-52  10 
Dear brothers of fraternal mind (fl)  52-55  11 
So much of Masonry's been sung (fl)  55-56 
Adieu, a heart fond, warm, adieu (fl)  56-57 
With plumb line and square (fl)  57-58 
Come follow, follow, let's pursue (fl)  58 
Whenever commanded we're always obedient (fl)  58-59 
Come charity thou goddes fair (fl)  59 
When our Master command (fl)  59-60   
Curiosity labors and longs for to know (fl)  60-61 
Ye Masons look round, and hark to the sound (fl)  61-62 
Assist my muse, thy influence bring (fl)  62-63 
When orient Wisdom beam'd serene (fl)  63-64 
Columbia's sons attend a while (fl)  64-65 
Ye thrice happy few (fl)  65-67 
When quite a young spark (fl)  67-68 
What joys do the Craft on each Mason bestow (fl)  68-69 
Mason's life's the life for me, A (fl)  69-71 
Corner stone, this day we have (fl)  71-72 
Curious vulgar could never devise, The (fl)  73 
Whilst science yields a thousand lights (fl)  74-75 
Offspring of heav'n, mankind's best friend (fl)  75-76 
Ye Brethren free, attend to me (fl)  76-79  17 
Come Charity, thou peerless maid (fl)  79-80 
Hail Brother Masons here conven'd (fl)  80-82  14 
Hail blissful night! whose genial ray (fl)  82-84 
Blest be the tie that binds (fl)  84-85 
Long had the jarring atoms been (fl)  85 
Let there be light, the Almighty spoke (fl)  85-86 
No man a disciple can be (fl)  86-88  13 
Parent of all! Omnipotent (fl)  88 
Inferior virtues rise from these (fl)  89-90 
Here Fortitude, of Hope the child (fl)  89-90 
Now ruddy Temperence shews her blooming face (fl)  89-90 
With cautious step and serious grace (fl)  89-90 
As Poverty late in a fit of despair (fl)  90-91 
Urania, hail! to thee we sing (fl)  91-92 
What solemn sounds on holy Sinai rung (fl)  92-93 
Now while yonder white-rob'd train (fl)  93 
Sons of antique art, The (fl)  93-94 
Hail, hail, O hail, thou source of love (fl)  95-97 
Wake the lute and quiv'ring strings (fl)  97-98 
Unfinish'd still the great intent (fl)  98-99 
Praise to Masons doth belong (fl)  99-101 
With grateful hearts your voices raise (fl)  101-102 
Conven'd we're met my jovial souls (fl)  102-103 
Genius of Masonry descend (fl)  103-105  11 
Order is Heaven's first law: through boundless space (fl)  106   
What mournful strains invade our ears (fl)  127-128   
Mason's daughter, fair and youg, A (fl)  128-129 
Great source of light and love (fl)  129-130 
Father of our feeble race (fl)  130 
Mark Masters all appear (fl)  131-132 
While ev'ry Orator and Bard displays (fl)  132   
Alone from arts and science flow (fl)  133 
Arise, and blow thy trumpet, Fame! (fl)  133-134 
System more pure ne'er was modell'd by man, A (fl)  134-135 
Divine Urania, virgin pure! (fl)  135-136 
Father Adam, created, beheld the light shine (fl)  136-137  13 
Glorious Craft, which fires the mind (fl)  138 
Hail, Masonry!,thou Craft divine! (fl)  138-139 
Here's a health to each one (fl)  139-140 
How happy a Mason! whose bosom still glows (fl)  140-141 
In times of old date, when (as stories relate) (fl)  141-142 
Let drunkards boast the power of wine (fl)  142-144 
Let Masons' fame resound (fl)  144-145 
Of your hearts to take care, now, ladies, prepare (fl)  145-146 
On a whimsical frolic, fair Venus (fl)  146 
O what a happy thng it is (fl)  146-147 
While arts and sciences did lie (fl)  147-148 
With cordial hearts let's drink a health (fl)  148-149 
Ye sons of fair science, impatient to learn (fl)  149-150 
When the Deity's word (fl)  150-151 
Whoever wants wisdom must with some delight (fl)  151-152 
Oh! Masonry, our hearts inspire (fl)  152-153 
Ye free-born sons of ev'ry clime (fl)  153-154 
Come Brothers, let us cheerful sing (fl)  154-155 
King Solomon, that wise projector (fl)  155-157 
Here social love serenely smiles (fl)  157 
Behold he comes upon the wings of light (fl)  158-164   
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