Post by staffs on Oct 13, 2006 6:25:09 GMT
Well this event is fast approaching and i understand that tickets are like Rocking Horse XXXX. How many of you are going ?
I know that The boys in tights got tickets and i was too late but i wrote some verse which i have also posted elsewhere and hope yo like it :
Lee Stafford Duke of Richmond mark Lodge 1025 Inspired by W.Bro Ken Brown A legend in his own lifetime
I know that The boys in tights got tickets and i was too late but i wrote some verse which i have also posted elsewhere and hope yo like it :
Im not going moan cause i cant get a ticket
as the Sherwood boys got first to that wicket
and sucked up to the grand most regal pooh bars
to let them attend or they would scream from afar
but don’t think for one minute that you’ll sit near the Duke
as those in these seats pulled some strings ,(its no fluke)
So its up in the gods for the Sherwood Mark boys,
They will be only a number and far away from the noise
but d nott forget those immortal words
when you do realize that you’re just one of the herds,
So it don’t really matter what rank you will greet.
Cos you wont get the nod from the Duke on the street
However, Mark well and look forward to the next brother to chance,
who has crossed oe'r from the craft to the mark to advance
We may be just a number in the overall picture
but we remember the Chaplains oration from scripture.
So when you see a brother,who is jovially whistling
for something other than Craft which he thinks might be missing
get him quickly proposed for his fourth step and next move
As in the Mark degree is where next he shall prove
that he can mark well as a brother and show he marks well
and become a member of your mark lodge and and with you all gel
to advance on and on till he gets to the chair
and adopt the persona of Adoniram there.
He shall there do his duty and serve his lodge well
and get to love this degree of the mark, we all love and know well.
But we keep going back to see the next one advanced
and soon get to the chair before we have glanced,
and we look at ourselves at lessons learned fair
from the plumb rule, mallet, compass and square.
but let not us forget those brothers before
who learned lessons well of chisel and square
And hope that one day when we hang up our gloves
that we meet and Mark Well with the Overseer above.
So if you aint got a ticket for the Grandest Mark Meeting
Don’t worry yourself and just stop your bleating.
As for my oneself i am no longer dejected
For i remember too well when my stone was rejected.
Our work will be measured it is really quite clear
So be sure that your headstone supports those brothers so dear.
as the Sherwood boys got first to that wicket
and sucked up to the grand most regal pooh bars
to let them attend or they would scream from afar
but don’t think for one minute that you’ll sit near the Duke
as those in these seats pulled some strings ,(its no fluke)
So its up in the gods for the Sherwood Mark boys,
They will be only a number and far away from the noise
but d nott forget those immortal words
when you do realize that you’re just one of the herds,
So it don’t really matter what rank you will greet.
Cos you wont get the nod from the Duke on the street
However, Mark well and look forward to the next brother to chance,
who has crossed oe'r from the craft to the mark to advance
We may be just a number in the overall picture
but we remember the Chaplains oration from scripture.
So when you see a brother,who is jovially whistling
for something other than Craft which he thinks might be missing
get him quickly proposed for his fourth step and next move
As in the Mark degree is where next he shall prove
that he can mark well as a brother and show he marks well
and become a member of your mark lodge and and with you all gel
to advance on and on till he gets to the chair
and adopt the persona of Adoniram there.
He shall there do his duty and serve his lodge well
and get to love this degree of the mark, we all love and know well.
But we keep going back to see the next one advanced
and soon get to the chair before we have glanced,
and we look at ourselves at lessons learned fair
from the plumb rule, mallet, compass and square.
but let not us forget those brothers before
who learned lessons well of chisel and square
And hope that one day when we hang up our gloves
that we meet and Mark Well with the Overseer above.
So if you aint got a ticket for the Grandest Mark Meeting
Don’t worry yourself and just stop your bleating.
As for my oneself i am no longer dejected
For i remember too well when my stone was rejected.
Our work will be measured it is really quite clear
So be sure that your headstone supports those brothers so dear.
Lee Stafford Duke of Richmond mark Lodge 1025 Inspired by W.Bro Ken Brown A legend in his own lifetime