A VIEW OF THE TEMPLE A Masonic Ode Words: from Solomon's Temple, An Oratorio. As it was performed in Dublin, for the benefit of sick and distressed Free Masons. The words by James Eyre Weeks. Music composed by Richard Broadway, organist of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Reprinted in Z.A. Davis, The Freemason's Monitor (Phildelphia, 1843), pp. 337-341. This musical setting, sung to the following tune at the installation of Middlesex Lodge, Framingham, Mass., 1795, omits the text enclosed in brackets below. Tune: Daniel Belknap, 1797 (Sacred Harp, 1844, p. 228) Scene II. A View of the Temple High Priest. Recitative: Sacred to heav'n behold the Dome appears; Lo, what august solemnity it wears; Angels themselves have deign'd to deck the frame, And beauteous Sheba shall report its fame. Air: When the Queen of the South shall return To the climes which acknowledge her sway, Where the sun's warmer beams fiercely burn, The princess with transport shall say: "Well worthy my journey, I've seen A monarch, both graceful and wise, Deserving the love of a queen, And a temple well worthy the skies." Chorus: Open, ye gates, receive a Queen who shares With equal sense your happiness and cares, Hiram. Recitative: Of riches much, but more of wisdom see, Proportion'd workmanship and Masonry Air: O, charming Sheba, there behold What massy stores of burnish'd gold, Yet richer is our Art: [Not all the orient gems that shine, Nor treasures of rich Ophir's mine, Excel the Mason's heart; True to the fair, he honours more Than glitt'ring gems or brightest ore, The plighted pledge of Love; To ev'ry tie of honour bound, In love and friendship constant found, And favour'd from above. Solomon and Sheba. Duett: Sh. One gem beyond the rest I see, And charming Solomon is he. So. One gem beyond the rest I see, Fairest of fair ones, thou art she. Sh. O thou surpassing all men's wise; So. And thine excelling women's eyes.] Hiram. Recitative Wisdom and Beauty both combine, Our Art to raise, our hearts to join. Chorus: Give to Masonry the prize, Where the fairest choose the wise: Beauty still should Wisdom love, Beauty and Order reign above.