---
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: 6
published: 1842-01-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“I Would See Jesus,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 6 (January 15, 1842): 668."
printed_title: I WOULD SEE JESUS.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-01-15_3_6
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n06.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_1842-01-15_3_6
start_page: 668
end_page: 668
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_1842-01-15_3_6
  publication_year: 1842
---

# I Would See Jesus

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When streams of pleasure gently flow, When in the sacred courts I tread,

And skies are clear, and comforts glow; And bow the knee, or lift the head;

In all prosperity, would I In all the ordinances, would I

To Jusus [Jesus] turn my grateful eye. On Jesus fix my faithful eye.

Or should the storms of sorrow lower, Or when the friendly throng I meet,

Afflictions pain, temptations pour; And heart meets heart, and friendships greet;

In all adversity, would I In social intercourse, would I

To Jesus turn my patient eye. On Jesus keep my loving eye.

When healthful flows the tide of life, When death shall spread his sombre [somber] shade,

And strength is firm, and vigor rife; And life shall cease, and earth shall fade;

In all activity, would I In the departing hour, would I

On Jesus fix my cheerful eye[.] On Jesus fix my hopeful eye.

Or should diseases rack my frame, And when the happy millions meet,

Or pains distract, or fevers flame; And wave their palms at Jesus' feet;

In all my sicknesses, would I Through all eternity would I

To Jesus lift my languid eye. On Jesus keep my joyful eye. G. H.