The Morning Star: A Poem

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A WORD WITH YOUNG MEN. 605

travel to get where they are today. Think of your condition as it is today. The chances for you to get and make homes now why there is no comparison to what they were when we were in the States. There is no possible chance for you to have to pass through the severe, rugged and trying scenes that many of your parents have had to pass through to get to this place and make Utah what it is today- Then be brave, and strike out in that which is manifestly your duty to do. The first thing we have any account of our Father commanding Adam was to multiply and replenish and subdue the earth, and take dominion. And that same saying is just as applicable now to all good Latter-day Saints in this new part of the world as it was when it was first given to Father Adam. I really do wish that it could be sensed and acted upon more generally. We should live by every word of the Lord and every principle of truth

that is given to us.

THE MORNING STAR.

Day's fair and solitary handmaid! bright Thou lingerest long within the silent sky; When all thy sparkling kin have left thy sight, And wandered to the palaces on high: Thou seem'st like herald sent upon his flight. To bid the morning lift his heavy eye. And give one farewell to departing night. Life wakes within the world, and from his sleep. The sun salutes the waters; on the shore The little sportive billows rise and leap, As if to kiss the sea-birds flying o'er— Their whitening bosoms sighing 'neath the steep. Nature now leaves her flowery bed in mirth, And, hand in hand with Light, walks laughing o'er the earth. D. Moore.