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title: "Masonic Song"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Song"
year: "1786"
tune: "Shawn-boy,” or “Over the water to Charlie"
location: "Mossgiel"
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/masonic-song/"
---

# Masonic Song

## Song
Ye sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie,  
To follow the noble vocation;  
Your thrifty old mother has scarce such another  
To sit in that honoured station.  
I’ve little to say, but only to pray,  
As praying’s the ton of your fashion;  
A prayer from thee Muse you well may excuse  
’Tis seldom her favourite passion.

Ye powers who preside o’er the wind, and the tide,  
Who marked each element’s border;  
Who formed this frame with beneficent aim,  
Whose sovereign statute is order:—  
Within this dear mansion, may wayward Contention  
Or withered Envy ne’er enter;  
May secrecy round be the mystical bound,  
And brotherly Love be the centre!

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/masonic-song/