This is my Lodge ...

This is my Lodge. It is composed of men like me.
I make it what it is.
I want it to be a Lodge that is a lamp
To the path of Freemasonry, a lamp leading
All members to goodness, truth and beauty.
It will be, if I am.
My Lodge will be friendly, if I am.
The chairs will be filled, if I help to fill them.
The Lodge can do great work, if I work.
The Lodge can make generous gifts
To many causes, if I am a generous giver.
Many members will come into its fellowship
If I bring them.
It will be a Lodge of loyalty, with a noble spirit,
With love and faith.
Therefore, I shall dedicate myself to the task of being
All of the things that I want my Lodge to be.

by Buford B. Lich

The above poem was printed in the Notice Paper for the 2006 Installation meeting of Lodge Benjamin Kneubuhl No.441 located in American Samoa. The lodge was founded in August 1974, in American Samoa, under the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. In 2006 the lodge had fifty-nine members, meeting in their own rooms within easy walking distance of the Tradewinds Hotel, near Tafuna Airport.

The nearest Lodge is Lodge Calliope No.252 which has met in Apia, Samoa since 1923, also under the Grand Lodge of New Zealand.

The above is from A history of Freemasonry in Samoa by W.Bro. Les Reid, at http://www.mastermason.com/hbresearch/pages/lecture13.htm