---
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: 9
published: 1841-03-01
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. 9 (March 1, 1841): 341."
printed_title: POETRY.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-03-01_2_9
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n09.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_1841-03-01_2_9
start_page: 341
end_page: 341
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_1841-03-01_2_9
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Poetry

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Roll on thy work, Eternal God; When all the people will be wise,

And speed that glorious time, And all their dealings just:

When thy pure gospel, spread abroad When lying tongues, and envious eyes

Will gladden every clime. Will moulder in the dust.

When burnished error will return, When Zion shall be plac'd on high,

E'en down from whence it came In bold security:

When truth- the lamp of life, shall burn When all the watchman, eye to eye

With clear, celestial [celestial] flame. Upon her walls shall see.

When knowledge, flowing from on high, When love to God and neighbor, will

Shall o'er the earth be spread, Pervade each human breast;

Deep mantling, as the waves that lie And in the light of Zion's hill

Upon the ocean's bed. The nations, all be blest.

O; give the happy period birth When Zion's lofty towers shall rise,

When strife and war shall cease; Above all earthly height;

When all the nations of the earth, And mingling with the joyful skies,

Will learn the art of peace. Eclipse yon orbs of light.

When foul iniquity, will hide, Propel thy glorious kingdom forth-

In shame its hateful head; Extend its light abroad:

And wicked men, no more, in pride Perform thy purpose on the earth,

Upon the righteous, tread. Thou great Eternal God ELIZA R. SNOW.