The Plumb

Build up your life like the temple of old
With stones that are polished and true;
Cement it with love, and adorn it with gold
As all Master builders should do:
Upon a foundation, well chosen and strong,
Build now for the ages to come:
Make use of the good, while rejecting the wrong;
And test all your work with the plumb.

Neal A. McAulay
(Source: A Treasury of Masonic Thought
Edited by Carl Glick)