---
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: 6
published: 1841-01-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Poetry,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 6 (January 15, 1841): 286–287."
printed_title: POETRY.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-01-15_2_6
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n06.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_1841-01-15_2_6
start_page: 286
end_page: 287
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_1841-01-15_2_6
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Poetry

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For the Times and Seasons.

Though outward trials throng your way, Lift up your hearts in praise to God-

Press on, press on, ye Saints of God! Let your rejoicings never cease:

Ere long, the resurrection day Though tribulation rage abroad,

Will spread its light and truth abroad. Christ says, "in me ye shall have peace."

Though outward ills await us here, What tho' our rights have been assal'd?

The time at longest, is not long;

Ere prince Messiah will appear

Surrounded by a glorious throng

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What tho' by foes we've been despoiled? Though satan rage, 'tis all in vain,-

Jehovah's promise has not fail'd- The words the ancient prophets spoke

Jehovah's purpose is not foil'd. Sure, as the throne of God, remain,

Nor men nor devils can revoke.

His work is moving on apace, All glory to His sacred name,

And great events are rolling forth- Who calls his servants-sends them forth.

The kingdom of the latter days- To prove the nations-to proclaim

The "little stone," must fill the earth. Salvation's trumpet, thro' the earth.

ELIZA R. SNOW.