The Lost Bride: A Poem

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lines,what need is there to discuss succession in the presidency, or polygamy? The latter has been a dead issue for some fourteen years, yet the Reorganizers keep whipping the dead horse, and by loud talk try to make not only the world, but Latter-day Saints, even here in Utah, believe that the corpse is a live and kicking one. Their temerity in mis-stating the true facts on this subject shows their confidence in the patient endurance of the libertyloving people of Zion. No other people would tamely submit to facts connected with their fathers and mothers and their own selves being perverted, as they are, day after day on the street corners of their own cities. I fear, at times, that some one in a crowd

may become so indignant at the slanderous statements made by these preachers of the gospel of controversy, as to be tempted to interrupt their meetings. As it is, we pass by on the other side, remembering that Jesus hath said: "That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." May our Reorganized friends repent, and turn from their ways, before they are forced to hear the words, "Too late." Provo, Utah.

THE LOST BRIDE. (A Sonnet for Music.)

The wan sun fell across the restless deep; Upon the rocks and sand the tide made moan The sea-bird, winging from the cavemed steep, Had left me standing on the beach alone. The ancient cypress, in the darkened wood, Its pendent moss and branches gently swayed; The night winds crept around me as I stood, And through the land a low, sweet music made. But in my heart was sadder passion still, Than any voiced by wind or tree or tide; All thoughts of anguish did my bosom fill, In that dark hour you should have been my bride: Salt, bitter tears were mine instead of thee, my lost love, who sleeps beneath the sea! Alfred Lambourne. Salt Lake City, Utah.