---
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: 14
published: 1843-06-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Lines Written in the Album of Miss M. L,” *Times and Seasons* 4, no. 14 (June 1, 1843): 224."
printed_title: LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF MISS M. L.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-06-01_4_14
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n14.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_1843-06-01_4_14
start_page: 224
end_page: 224
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_1843-06-01_4_14
  publication_year: 1843
---

# Lines Written in the Album of Miss M. L

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BY MISS E. R. SNOW.

Friendship's tones are sweet and thrilling, Then Mary, friendship's wreath entwine,

Like the zepher's soothing sound- But never worship at its shrine;

Like the beauteous rainbow filling, For death will sever every tie

Friendship's halo gathers round. That is not based above the sky.

Sweet sounding harp! I prize it more

Than both the India's boasted store; Heav'nly hopes death cannot sever,

I know its worth-its charm I feel Nor time's bold torrent sweep away.

This moment o'er my bosom steal. The "Word of God" will stand forever,

Though empires waste and crowns decay;

Yet with chasten'd thought I cherish Then let its precepts be your care,

Fairest gems of earthly mould; And mould you mind and practice there;

In the grave our "memories perish"- And calmly while life's tempests beat,

Friendship there forgets its hold. Like Mary, sit at Jesus' feet.

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.