---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1841 to 1842.
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: 3
number: 13
published: 1842-05-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“By Miss E. R. Snow,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 13 (May 1, 1842): 782."
printed_title: BY MISS E. R. SNOW.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-05-01_3_13
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n13.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_1842-05-01_3_13
start_page: 782
end_page: 782
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 1842 (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_1842-05-01_3_13
  publication_year: 1842
---

# By Miss E. R. Snow

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Dearest Brother, wherefore leave us? Thou art now a standard bearer

Why forsake they friends and home? On a distant mountain top;

Of thy presence, why bereave us, And perchance, art made a sharer

And in foreign countries roam? In privation's bitter cup

Must the dearest ties be broken? For the Lord designs to prove thee

Must affection's beauties fade? If his voice thou wilt obey;

No: O no, but God has spoken Therefore from the friends that love thee,

And his voice must be obey'd. Thou art parted far away?

Thou art call'd to bear Salvation's Thou art call'd thyself to sever

Joyful tidings far abroad From the land where kindred dwell!

Thou hast gone to warn the nations, But it will not be forever

In the name of Israel's God. Time ere long, will break the spell.

For the spirit of Devotion Here warm friends await thy greeting-

To Messiah' glorious cause; Noble friends, of Abram's line-

Thou hast cross'd the pathless ocean, Here are gentle pulses beating

To proclaim redemption's laws. In soft unison with thine.

For the gospel proclamation Here are daily pray'rs ascending

Must be sounded far and near; That th' appointed time may come,

That the best of every nation, When thy foreign mission ending,

May in Zion's courts appear. We shall bid thee "welcome home."

City of Nauvoo, April, 21st, 1842.