---
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: 15
published: 1841-06-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“On the Death of President Harrison,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 15 (June 1, 1841): 437."
printed_title: On the Death of President Harrison.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-06-01_2_15
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n15.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_1841-06-01_2_15
start_page: 437
end_page: 437
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_1841-06-01_2_15
  publication_year: 1841
---

# On the Death of President Harrison

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By Miss Eliza R. Snow.

"Now to his ashes, honor-peace be with him,

And choice of angels sing him to his rest."

Why flows that strain of deep-ton'd sympathy?

Columbia mourns a great calamity!

What is that sorrow? 'Tis a country's grief:

Earth's proudest nation, mourns her highest Chief,

Who, like the rising sun, just usher'd forth,

Then disappear'd to shine no more on earth?

Our country's genius, ever wont to soar

Has never bow'd to grief like this, before;

'Tis true, she's mourn'd a fav'rite Washington,}

Her first born Chieftain; and a Madison-}

Monroe, and Adams, and a Jefferson;}

But their high office had been re-supplied;

They'd left the Hall of Justice ere they died-

They'd clos'd their services, and had retir'd,

And in retirement's soft repose expir'd.

But this bereavement, comes with heavier tread,

And from the nation, takes her acting head;

Whom a free people's suffrage plac'd on high

To guide her helm, beneath a threat'ning sky!

Death aim'd an arrow at our highest trust

And laid the choice of millions in the dust!

Spread wither'd hopes and palsied prospects round

And into sorrow, chang'd the festive sound!

Columbia's willows now are bending low-

Our country's tears in lib'ral torrents flow.

Weep! weep Columbia! tears will grace thee now,

While grief lies heavy on the nation's brow;

Well may thy children now unite to spread

A wreath of sorrow o'er the Hero's head-

Unite to mourn our country's Chieftain gone-

The honor'd lov'd, lamented Harrison,

And bow submissive 'neath the chast'ning rod

And humbly own the mighty hand of God!

City of Nauvoo, May 21st, 1841.