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In addition to this review, Dante Gabriel Rossetti claimed that A Song to David was "the only great accomplished poem of the last century." [33] Two years later, Francis Palgrave wrote that the Song exhibited "noble wildness and transitions from grandeur to tenderness, from Earth to Heaven" and it was "unique in our Poetry."
The song also goes by the names "Acres of Clams", “Lay of the Old Settler,” “Old Settler’s Song,” while the melody is known as “Rosin the Beau,” "Old Rosin the Beau," "Rosin the Bow," "Mrs. Kenny," "A Hayseed Like Me," "My Lodging's on the Cold, Cold Ground." The Sacred Harp song "338 Sawyer's Exit" also uses the tune. [1]
The Regius Manuscript is the oldest known Masonic old charges concerning the regulation of masonry in Britain, dated to approximately 1390. It takes the form of a poem in Middle English rhyming couplets, spanning almost 800 lines. [21] [13] It is believed to have been written in England, perhaps in York. [22]
After he became a Mason on March 5, 1846, he became convinced that there needed to be a way for female relatives of Masons to share in some measure in the benefits of Freemasonry. While teaching at the Eureka Masonic College ("The Little Red Brick School Building") in Pickens, Mississippi in 1849–1850, he wrote Eastern Star's first ritual ...
Other openly masonic compisitions by Mozart include the Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music) and a number of songs and cantatas. [ 4 ] Lodges sometimes used the music of other composers for their proceedings (with or without permission) often adding different words.
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