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title: "A Stanza Added in a Mason Lodge"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1782"
location: "Lochlea"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/a-stanza-added-in-a-mason-lodge/"
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# A Stanza Added in a Mason Lodge

## Poem
Then fill up a bumper and make it o’erflow,  
And honours masonic prepare for to throw;  
May ev’ry true Brother of the Compass and Square  
Have a big-belly’d bottle when harass’d with care.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
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