---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 2
number: 14
published: 1841-05-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Poetry Inspired Writings,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 14 (May 15, 1841): 421."
printed_title: Poetry Inspired Writings
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-05-15_2_14
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n14.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-05-15_2_14
start_page: 421
end_page: 421
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-05-15_2_14
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Poetry Inspired Writings

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Revelations now coming forth, Judah's writing and Joseph's too,

Are sublime and eternal truth; Each testifies the other's true;

In them Jehovah's voice proclaims, They teach the same when searched thro'.

This is my church, enroll your names. Believe them both, we're bound to do.

The word of wisdom's a sure guide The Lord hath said "I'll make them one,

To all who do the same abide; As I command let it be done;

Its promises are very great. For a short work I now will make,

Though I the same need not relate. And Israel from the heathen take."

Enbalmed [Embalmed] records, plates of gold, "To their own lands on mountains high,

Glorious things to us unfold; I'll bring them with a watchful eye;

Though sealed up they long have been, To them the kingdom I'll restore

To give us light they now begin. And be their king forever more.

Long since to Daniel God did say, The book of Jasher has been found,

"Seal up the book and go thy way: And many more hid in the ground;

For many shall be purified, All these, with Enoch's book, unfold

By sacrifice they shall be tried." And spread true light from pole to pole.

A noble man of ancient birth Those things are true we testify,

Beheld the same spring from the earth; And all who do with them comply,

And many more in visions saw Will in eternity rejoice,

The books which now contain the law. That they have made so wise a choice

Samuel Brown.