The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Builders, by Joseph Fort Newton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Author: Joseph Fort Newton Release Date: August 15, 2006 [EBook #19049] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BUILDERS *** Produced by Brian Sogard, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation matches the original document. A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document. THE BUILDERS A STORY AND STUDY OF MASONRY BY JOSEPH FORT NEWTON, LITT. D. GRAND LODGE OF IOWA When I was a King and a Mason— A master proved and skilled, I cleared me ground for a palace Such as a King should build. I decreed and cut down to my levels, Presently, under the silt, I came on the wreck of a palace Such as a King had built!