Freemason PIN poem

PIN - Submitted to the Grand Lodge of California Video Contest by Bro. Artur Babayan is a visual representation of a poem that describes Freemasonry. In our lodge, this poem is recited by a Master Mason when presenting the MM pin to a newly raised master mason. The story takes place in the 1880's in Southern Texas, when a mother and father greet their son, coming home from active duty.

PIN Poem

Well, well, well, here's our son
Bob, come back home again.
And see mother he's a wearin' a
brand new Masons pin. There's the
square and the compass and that
mystic letter "G"... So youall's
Master Mason since you got your
third degree.

And you're going to take the
Chapter, the Consistory and the
Shrine, and wear the crescent, the
Cymeter and the fez. Well now,
that's mighty fine.

You say that a Shriner's pin will
help you on in life. Well maybe it
will son, but when your Ma became
my wife, she told me she wasn't
marryin' me because of no pin, no
sir!
She said, it was on account of the
Masonry within.

Mother, would you all mind steppin'
out, there's one or two things in
the blue lodge that Bob don't know
about.

Now Bob, I'm aimin' to help you get
a real Masonic start.
That there pin...
Don't make you a Mason, it's got to
be in your heart. Most all Mason's
are good men son, but some are full
of sin and the orniest critters of
the whole darn bunch are them that
just wear pins... they just wear
them for business son, don't mean a
thing to them. Their Masonry
doesn't come from within.
To some masonry's words is livin'
fire. To others just and empty
sound.

You all know that in the sixties I
served with the boys in gray, Made
that death march with Picket on
Gettysburgs final day. Sixteen
thousand across that plain. We
charged right o'er our comrades
slain...

Through a great hole in the wall,
straight for a man in blue I bore.
A huge rock from that wall he
tore... to dash out my brains...
but ere it fell... He saw a pin we
both loved well. And in that
battle's roar and din, I heard him
say... "pass on my brother, pass
in".

So wear your pin son... But wear it
with pride, let it stand for your
Masonry inside and when you hear the Great Architect callin' that final time, and you and your brethren are
standing in line, remember, the
Tyler, won't let you in, because of
the size or cost of your pin.

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[TxSWATFrog]

Love it. Thanks for sharing.

[michaeldavid30]

This is the result of the brethren of Home Lodge coming together for a great cause. I hope that in time, this YouTube page will have many many more videos to share the beauties of freemasonry! Thank you brethren!

[CPJohn100]

love it

[michaelbrevig]

Great work brothers!

Perhaps someone can post the poem?

Fraternally yours,

Michael B.

[michaeldavid30]

Beautiful work.