MASONIC TOKEN. WHEREBY ONE BROTHER MAY KNOW ANOTHER. VOLUME 2. PORTLAND, JAN. 15, 1878. Nq. 3. Some pious Thebans, when the storm was past, M Penley, m ; Milton J Loring, sw ; George Published quarterly by Stephen Berry, Unclosed the sepulchre with cunning skill, Parker, jw; Edwin T Stevens, sec. And nature, aiding their devotion, cast No. 37 Plum Street, Portland. Over its entrance a concealing rill. Star in the East. 60. Oldtown. Mellan A Then thy third darkness came, and thou didst sleep Austin, m; Edgar B Weeks, sw; Stephen C Twelve cts. per year in advance. Papers stopped Twenty-three centuries in silence deep. Morse, jw; Charles A Bailey, sec. when time is out. OTTostage is prepaid. But he from whom nor pyramid nor sphinx Oriental Star, 21, Livermore. Everett L Can hide its secresies, Belzoni, came; From the tomb’s mouth unloosed the granite links, Philoon, m; Byron C Waite, sw; James N Advertisements §4.00 per inch, or §3.00 for Gave thee again to light, and life, and fame, Atwood, jw; John Larrabee, sec. half an inch for one year. The money should be And brought thee from’ the sands and desert forth remitted to insure insertion. To charm the pallid children of the north. Wilton, 156, Wilton. Justus Webster, m ; No advertisement received unless the advertiser, Alonzo B Adams, sw ; Anson Morseman, jw ; or some member of the firm, is a Freemason in Thou art in London, which, when thou wert new, Ansil Walker, sec. good standing. Was, what Thebes is, a wilderness and waste, Where savage beasts more savage men pursue— Maine, 20, Farmington. Roliston Wood­ A scene by nature curs’d—by man disgraced. bury, m; Hiram C Barnard, sw; Horace L ADDRESS TO THE AEAB ASTER Now—’tis the world’s metropolis—the high Queen of arms, learning, arts, and luxury. Parsons, jw; David H Knowlton, sec. SARCOPHAGUS, Here, where I hold my hand, ’tis strange to think St. George, 16, Warren. Alvin Hinkley, deposited IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. What other hands perchance preceded mine; m ; Warren Morse, Jr., sw; Melvin Parker, Others have also stood beside thy brink, jw; Urban II Hovey, sec. And vainly conn’d the moralizing line. BY HORACE SMITH. Kings, sages, chief, that touch’d this stone, like me, King Hiram, 57, Dixfield. L C Willough- Where are ye now?—where all must shortiy be. by, m; D F Newton, sw; J S Swett, jw ; Thou alabaster relic 1 while I hold All is mutation;—he within this stone W M Kidder, sec. My hand upon thy sculptured margin thrown, Was once the greatest monarch of the hour:— Casco, 36, Yarmouth. Munroe Stoddard, Let me recall the scenes thou couldst unfold, His bones are dust—his very name unknown. m ; Lorenzo L Shaw, sw ; George E Thoits, Might’st thou relate the changes thou hast known, Go—learn from him the vanity of power: For thou wert primitive in thy formation, Seek not the frame’s corruption to control, jw; Josiah M Walker, sec. Launch’d from th’ Almighty’s hand at the creation. But build a lasting mansion for thy soul. Composite, 168, La Grange. Marcellus Yes—thou wort present when the stars and skies Nason, m; Frank G Perkins, sw; Manly G And worlds unnumber’d roll’d into their places; Brackett, jw ; Ronella L Doble, sec. When God from chaos hade the spheres arise, And iix’d the blazing huh upon basis, MASONRY IN MAINE. Liberty, 111, Liberty. Gustavus H Cargill, Anti witli his linger on tlio bounds of space m ; Weston B Marden, sw ; Levi T Brown, Mark’d out each planet’s everlasting race. Lodge Elections. jw; Ambrose P Cargill, sec. How many thousand ages from thy birth Bethlehem, 35, Augusta. Edward F Beals, Fraternal, 55, Alfred. Marcus W Towne, Thou sleptst in darkness, it were vain to ask, Till Egypt’s sons upheaved thee from the earth, m; C H Brick, sw; H AB Chandler, jw; m ; Asa L Ricker, sw ; Otis R Whicher, jw ; And year by year pursued their patient task, H F Blanchard, sec. Alonzo Leavitt, sec. Till thou wert carved and decorated thus, Worthy to be a king’s Sarcophagus. Portland, 1, Portland. John II Hall, m ; Oriental, 13, Bridgton. Albert F Richard­ Wm N Prince, sw; John Evans, jw; Con- son, m; Frank P Bennett, sw; George H What time Elijah to the skies ascended, vers O Leach, sec. Geo W Deering, Trustee. Willard, jw; Micajah Gleason, sec. Or David reign’d in holy Palestine, Some ancient Theban monarch was extended Hiram, 180, Cape Elizabeth. Thomas B Trojan, 134, East Troy. William E Dor­ Beneath the lid of this emblazon’d shrine, Haskell, m ; Wm F Rundlett, sw ; Roberts man, m ; William F Mitchell, sw; Timothy And to that subterranean palace borne Which toiling ages in the rock had worn. Melcher, jw ; Elisha M Jordan, sec. W Hawes, jw ; Abner Hodgdon, sec. Reuel Washburn, 181, Livermore Falls. Solar, 14, Bath. W. Scott Shorey, m; Thebes from her hundred portals fin’d the plain To see the car on which thou wert upheld:— W H Wood, m; AG French, sw; Frank John H Stantial, sw; John R Knowlton, jw; What funeral pomps extended in thy train, Garcelon, j w ; W S Treat, sec; J L Douglas, sec. What banners waved, what mighty music swell’d, As armies, priests, and crowds, bewail’d in chorus Ancient Landmark, 17, Portland. Henry Felicity, 19, Bucksport. Guy W McAlis- Their King—their God—their Serapis—their Orus! F Perry, m ; Clayton J Farrington, sw ; E S ter. m; Wesley Lockhart, sw; Albert M Redlon, jw; Geo L Swett, see. Leander W Houston, jw ; Edwin P Hill, sec. Thus to thy second quarry did they trust Thee and the Lord of all the nations round. Fobes, Trustee. Messalonskee, 113, W. Waterville. Cha’s Grim King of Silence! Monarch of the dust! Atlantic, 81, Portland. 1. I< Gatly, m ; Rowell, m ; George W Goulding, sw ; Louis Embalm’d — anointed—je well’d — scepter’d — Belanger, jw; G T Benson, sec. crown’d, A I) Pearson, sw; Charles C Bedlow, jw; A Here did he lie in state, cold, stiff, and stark, G Rogers, sec. R II Hinkley and D W True, Tyrian, 73, Mechanic Falls. E F Stevens, A leathern Pharaoh grinning in tlie dark. Trustees. m ; J M Libby, sw ; II N Whittle, jw ; E F Thus ages roll’d—but their dissolving breath Northern Star, 28, North Anson. Benj Edgecomb, sec. Could only blacken that imprison’d thing, Adapts, m; Benj Mantor, sw; Wm II Wil­ Which wore a ghastly royalty in death, Cumberland, 12, New Gloucester. John I As if it struggled still to be a king; liams, jw ; C S Mantor, sec. Sturgis, m ; Albert W Larrabee, sw; Wm A And each revolving century, like the last, Alna, 43, Damariscotta. J F Sumner, m; Knight, jw; George II Goding, sec. Just dropp’d its dust upon thy lid—and pass’d. F Clark, sw ; E II Winslow, jw; Wm A Dirigo, 104, Weeks’s Mills. O F Rowe, m ; The Persian conqueror o’er Egypt pour’d Jones, sec. II S Gray, sw ; F Percival, jw ; OF Sprowl, His devastating host—a motley crew; sec. The steel-clad horsemen—the barbarian horde— Greenleaf, 117, Cornish. Preston Durgin, Music and men of every sound and hue— m; Charles C O’Brion, sw; Israel Boothby, Esoteric, 159, Ellsworth. Arthur W Gree- Priests, archers, eunuchs, concubines and brutes— jw; Roscoe G Smith, sec. ly, m; Wm F Emerson, sw; Francis A Ma­ Gongs, trumpets, cymbals, dulcimers and lutes. Freeport, 23, Freeport. S A Thurlow, m ; comber, jw; James A McGown, sec. Then did the fierce Cambyses tear away W F Bennett, sw ; B F Chandler, jw ; G P Mount Kineo, 109, Abbott. Charles N The ponderous rock that seal’d the sacred tomb; Then did the slowly penetrating ray Soule, sec. Rand, m; Marcell L Hussey, sw; Wm S Redeem thee from long centuries of gloom, Carrabassett, 161, Canaan. George W McKusic, jw ; Llewellyn S Flynt, sec. And lower’d torches flash’d against thy side As Asia’s king thy blazon’d trophies eyed. Johnson, m; John F Brock, sw; Abel Pleasant River, 163, Brownville. Alvin S Prescott, jw; Albion R Chase, sec. Wilkins, m; Wm F Jenks, sw; Charles L Pluck'd from his grave, with sacrilegious taunt, Nichols, jw ; Andrew P Carle, sec. Tlie features of the royal corpse they scann’d:— Village, 26, Bowdoinham. James II Wil­ Dashing the diadem from his temple gaunt, son, m ; Silas Adams, sw ; Charles W Frost, Vernon Valley, 99, Mount Vernon. Au­ They tore the sceptre from his graspless hand, jw; Benjamin L Higgins, sec. gustus F. Smart, m ; George C Hopkins, sw ; And on those fields, where once his will was law, Henry Graves, j w ; Silas Burbank, sec. Left him for winds to waste and beasts to gnaw. Ancient Brothers’, 178, Auburn. Albert 18 MASONIC TOKEN JAN. 15, 1878. Archon, 139, East Dixmont. Benjamin F Blunt, hp; James H Frost, k; Orrin A as to elect one member of the Finance Com- Porter, m ; Samuel F Mansur, sw ; Silas W Priest, s ; CM Lambert, sec. mittee for three years each year after the Philbrick, jw; Amos Whitney, sec. New Jerusalem, 3, Wiscasset. James M present term. Officers for the ensuing year : Washington, 37, Lubec. John 0 Baker, Knight, hp; Seth Patterson, k; Edwin m ; John Thayer, Jr., sw ; Wm 11 Hunter, Farnham, s; Joseph W. Taggart, sec. President—S. R.