While browsing the Internet one evening I came across a piece of verse that I found very interesting. I recognised a part as being the ritual that is sometimes said by a Junior Warden when closing the lodge in the second degree.
Happy we have met, happy we have been, happily we part and happy to meet again.
I surmise that this piece of our ritual must have been derived from the verse I found on the net. It would appear that the origin of the verse was mid nineteenth century and is used in some lodges refectories as a final toast before the tyler’s toast.
