The Lamb Skin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCD EE FFG HHIJ KKLL BBMM NNOO| It is not ornamental the cost is not great | A |
| There are other things far more useful yet truly I state | A |
| Though of all my possesions there's none can compare | B |
| With that white leather apron which all Masons wear | B |
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| As a young lad I wondered just what it all meant | C |
| When Dad hustled around and so much time was spent | C |
| On shaving and dressing and looking just right | D |
| Until Mother would say 'It's the Masons tonight ' | - |
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| And some winter nights she said 'What makes you go | E |
| Way up there tonight thru the sleet and the snow | E |
| You see the same things every month of the year ' | - |
| Then Dad would reply 'Yes I know it my dear ' | - |
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| 'Forty years I have seen the same things it is true | F |
| And though they are old they always seem new | F |
| For the hands that I clasp and the friends that I greet | G |
| Seem a little bit closer each time that we meet ' | - |
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| Years later I stood at that very same door | H |
| With good men and true who had entered before | H |
| I knelt at the alter and there I was taught | I |
| That virtue and honor can never be bought | J |
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| That the spotless white lambskin all Masons revere | K |
| If worthily worn grows more precious each year | K |
| That service to others brings blessings untold | L |
| That man may be poor tho surrounded by gold | L |
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| I learned that true brotherhood flourishes there | B |
| That enmities fade 'neath the compass and square | B |
| That wealth and position are all thrust aside | M |
| As there on the level men meet and abide | M |
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| So honor the lambskin may it always remain | N |
| Forever unblemished and free from all stain | N |
| And when we are called to the Great Father's love | O |
| May we all take our place in that Lodge up above | O |
Edgar Albert Guest
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