Poets Corner. Grand Lodge of Tasmania

The Mystic Art

by Bro. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The world may rail at Masonry,

And scoff at Square and Line,

We'll follow with complacency

The Master's great Design.

A King can make a gartered Knight, 


And breathe away another,

But he, with all his skill and might, 


Can never make a Brother.

This power alone, thou Mystic Art, 


Freemasonry, is thine; 


The power to tame the savage heart 


With brother-love divine!