The Temple 🏛️ What Makes It Of Worth by Edgar A. Guest | A Poem on True Foundations & Living Values

Описание: 🏛️📜 What truly gives a building its worth?
This inspiring poem reminds us that no matter how grand the stone, how high the steel, or how rich the marble and gold ✨—a structure is empty without the spirit of men 🤝

Through vivid imagery of towering foundations, carved pillars, and enduring walls, the poem teaches a timeless truth: real greatness is not built from materials, but from living values—character, purpose, and human spirit 🕊️

💡 This poem reflects on:
• True foundations beyond brick and stone 🧱
• Human spirit over material wealth 🤍
• Purpose, meaning, and legacy ⏳
• What makes any work truly “living and real” 🌱

🎧 Perfect for Masonic reflection, inspirational readings, lodge education, or moments of deep thought.
👉 Listen, reflect, and share with those who believe that people—not things—give meaning to the world.
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Lyrics:

You may delve down to rock for your foundation piers,
You may go with your steel to the sky;
You may purchase the best of the thought of the years,
And the finest of workmanship buy.
You may line with the rarest of marble each hall,
And with gold you may tint it; but then
It is only a building if it, after all,
Isn't filled with the spirit of men.

You may put up a structure of brick and of stone,
Such as never was put up before;
Place there the costliest woods that are grown,
And carve every pillar and door.
You may fill it with splendors of quarry and mine,
With the glories of brush and pen-
But it's only a building, though ever so fine,
If it hasn't the spirit of men.

You may build such structure that lightning can't harm,
Or one that an earthquake can't raze;
You may build it of granite and boast that its charm
Shall last to the end of all days.
But you might as well never have builded at all,
Never cleared off the bog and the fen,
If, after it's finished, its sheltering wall
Doesn't stand for the spirit of men.

For it isn't the marble , nor is it the stone,
Nor is it the columns of steel,
By which is the worth of an edifice known;
But it's something that's LIVING and REAL.

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