Grant us, kind Heaven, what we request

This hymn is referenced in an advertisement of St. Johns the Baptist anniversary at Salem Lodge No. 81 being sung in the tune of Old Hundred.

ANTHEM I.

GRANT us, kind Heaven! what we request,
In Masonry let us blessed;
Direct us to that happy place
Where Friendship smiles in every face:
  Where Freedom and sweet Innocence
  Enlarge the mind and cheer the sense.

Where scepter’d Reason, from her throne,
Surveys the Lodge, and makes us one;
And Harmony’s delightful sway
For ever sheds ambrosial day:
  Where we blest Eden’s pleasures taste,
  While balmy joys are our repast.

No

No prying eye can view us here;
No fool or knave disturb our cheer:
Our well-form’d laws set mankind free,
And give relief to Misery:
  The poor, oppress’d with woe and grief,
  Gain from our bounteous hands relief.

Our Lodge the social Virtues grace,
And Wisdom’s rules we fondly trace;
Whole Nature open to our view,
Points out the paths we should pursue.
  Let us subsist in lasting peace,
  And may our happiness increase!