---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1842 to 1843.
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: 4
number: 11
published: 1843-04-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“My Epitaph,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 11 (April 15, 1843): 176."
printed_title: My Epitaph,
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-04-15_4_11
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n11.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_1843-04-15_4_11
start_page: 176
end_page: 176
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 1843 (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_1843-04-15_4_11
  publication_year: 1843
---

# My Epitaph

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By Miss Eliza R. Snow.

'Tis not the tribute of a sigh In friendship's memory let me live,

From sorrow's bleeding bosom drawn; I know no earthly wish beside;

Nor tears that flow from pity's eye, I ask no more; yet, oh, forgive

To weep for me when I am gone; This impulse of instinctive pride.

No costly balm, no rich perfume, The silent pulse of memory,

No vain sepulchral rite I claim; That beats to the unutter'd tone

No mournful knell, no marble tomb, Of tenderness, is more to me

Nor sculptur'd stone to tell name. Than the insignia of a stone:

It is a holier tithe I crave For friendship holds a secret cord,

Than time-proof, monumental piers, That with the fibres [fibers] of my heart,

Than roses planted on my grave, Entwines so deep so close 'tis hard

Or willows drip'd in dewy tears. For death's dissecting hand to part!

The garlands of hypocrisy I feel the low responses roll,

May be equip'd with many a gem; Like the far echo of the night,

I prize the heart's sincerity And whisper, softly through my soul,

Before a princely diadem. "I would not be forgotten quite."

The Times and Seasons,

Is Edited by John Taylor, printed and published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain Streets, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, by John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff,

Terms.-Two dollars per annum, payable in all cases in advance. Any person procuring five new subscribers, and forwarding us Ten Dollars current money, shall receive one volume gratis. All letters must be addressed to John Taylor, editor, post paid, or they will not receive attention