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/ Author of all divine / Gifts, lofty, pure, and free, / Temperance and truth in song sublime / An offering bring to Thee!
/ A temple, whose high dome / Rose from a water-cup; / And from its altar to Thy throne / May we press on and up!
/ And she -- last at the cross, / First at the tomb, who waits -- / Woman -- will watch to cleanse from dross / The cause she elevates.
/ Sons of the old Bay State, / Work for our glorious cause! / And be your waiting hearts elate, / Since temperance makes your laws.
/ "Temples of Honor," all, / "Social," or grand, or great, / This blazoned, brilliant temperance hall / To Thee we dedicate.
/ "Good Templars" one and all, / Good "Sons," and daughters, too, / We dedicate this temperance hall / To God, to Truth, and you!
Lynn, Mass., _August 4, 1866_.