Brigham Young

BRIGHAM YOUNG. {For the Improvement Era.) Here on the hill he sleeps, Close to the city's din, on whom did fall The pow'r of Zion's founder, Joseph the Seer. Though in the tomb, doth Brigham still hold court; They come from ev'ry land, and rev'rence pay To him whose works the Lord hath magnified. The early morn sees many standing by His resting place, and evening's setting sun Shines o'er them ling'ring there, who homage pay To his great name: not great because of wealth, Or earth's renown, but great because the Lord Hath made him great, his faithful servant been. God raiseth up or casteth down at will; He recompenseth every one his due. Yet, 0, the mockery of it all, to see Men bow before him dead, they scorned in life! And yet, 'tis history o'er again, and true: "Away with him!" whom now all men adore. Who could have known, when only red men trod This vale, that they who came,—the lonely, sick, Obscure, cast out from ev'ry land, should, ere The century's close, so honored be to earth's Remotest bounds, and that by titled ones; And, towering high among them, Brigham Young? 0 answer ye, the prophets, who foresaw This time, and said, "the mountain of the Lord's House shall be in the mountain tops, and all The nations shall flow unto it." Sounds Now the mountain's solemn voice, "the Lord Hath spoken, hear ye all the earth! as he Hath done, so will he yet perform all things According to his word." Whom he honors The world shall honor,—decree eternal— And foremost 'mong them, till the trump shall sound. Will be the name and fame of Brigham Young. Salt Lake City, Utah. Lydia D. Alder.