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Unbound. One folio leaf. Old fold marks and short tears, near fine. A handwritten poem, Signed and dated 17 April 1852 in Salisbury, Maryland, comparing the voyage through life of his brother freemasons as a nautical voyage presided over by God. The form of the poem consists of 24 lines in four tail-rhyme stanzas (aabccb), a common form in popular romantic poetry. Apparently an early celebration of Masonic brotherhood as practiced on the Maryland Eastern Shore. The Salisbury-area lodge was founded in 1848.

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