The Dispensation of the Fulness of Times
Improvement Era, vol. 12, no. 9, July 1909, p. 733
Curtis, Theodore E.
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Peoples are reaped and garnered as the grain, And only that persists which is the truth: Be strong when all the days of life bear ruth And fury and are hot with toil and strain: Hold thy large faith and quell thy mighty pain: Dream thy great dream that buoys thine age with youth.
Thou art an eagle mewed in a sea-stopped cave: He poised in darkness, with victorious wings, Keeps night between the granite and the sea, Until the tide ha? drawn the warder-wave, Then from the portal where the ripple sings, He bursts into the boundless morning — free! Atlantic Monthly. Beaver, Utah.
THE DISPENSATION OF THE FULNESS OF TIMES.
{For the Improvement Era.)
Awake and arise, all ye slumbering nations! The heavens fling open their portals again. The last, and the greatest of all dispensations Has burst like a dawn o'er the children of men.
The dream of the poet, the crown of the ages, Of which all the far-seeing prophets have spoke That glorious day only dreamed by the sages Is yours. Oh ye slumbering nations, awake!
Lo, Israel from his long slumber is waking. The stars, and the moon, and the darkness are gone; And on the high towers of our Zion is breaking The gold of the promised millennial dawn.
Now lift up your voices in song and in story Now let the war flags of all nations be furled. For truth, heaven-born in her beauty and glory, Is marching triumphantly over the world. Theodore E. Curtis. Salt Lake City, Utah.