A Vida e a Época de Jacques DeMolay

Quando a Ordem DeMolay foi criada os meios de comunicação ainda eram praticamente apenas rádio e papel. Dessa forma, havia a necessidade de se fazer conhecer a vida e a morte de Jacques de Molay, nosso patrono.

Dessa forma, Frank Shermann Land encomendou ao Editor-em-Chefe da Sociedade Nacional de Pesquisas Maçônicas H.L. Haywood o que se sabe ser a primeira biografia destinada única e exclusivamente a Jacques DeMolay: "A Story of Life and Times of Jacques de Molay", livro que faz parte do acervo do museu do Supremo Conselho.

Muito pouco consegui encontrar sobre a vida de Haywood, mas por outro lado pude ler muitas de suas obras. Mas um lado dele que não conhecia ainda era o de poeta:

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Poem - We are Two Brothers

We are Two Brothers
By H. L. Haywood

Give me your hand;
You are rich;
I am poor;
Your wealth is your power, and by it you tread

A wide open path;
where for me is a door
That is locked;
and before it are worry and dread.

We are sundered, are we,
As two men can be
But we are two brothers in Freemasonry
So give me your hand.

Give me your hand;
You are great;
I'm unknown;
You travel with a permanent fame;
I go on a way unlauded, alone,

With hardly a man to hear of my name:
We are sundered, are we,
As two men can be
But we are two brothers in Freemasonry
So give me your hand.

Give me your hand;
You are old;
I am young;
The years in your heart their wisdom have sown;
But knowledge speaks not by my faltering tongue,

And small in the wisdom I claim as my own:
We are sundered, are we,
As two men can be
But we are two brothers in Freemasonry
So give me your hand"