---
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: 7
published: 1843-02-15
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* 4, no. 7 (February 15, 1843): 112."
printed_title: Poetry.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1843-02-15_4_7
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v4n07.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_1843-02-15_4_7
start_page: 112
end_page: 112
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_1843-02-15_4_7
  publication_year: 1843
---

# Poetry

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The following lines were written sometime since, by Gen, Wilson Law and handed to us; but in consequence of a press of matter they have unavoidably been delayed.

All hail to our Chief! who has come back with honor- Thou goddess of Freedom! O, grant thy attendance

With glory's bright halo encircling around; On th' brave who're defending fair liberty's cause;

From the highest tribunal in this great republic, May such judges as Pope still be found to befriend us-

Where falsehood and slander caused him to be bound: To administer justice and honor the laws:

And his vile persecutors in their base designing, Then our country's broad flag will wave on in its glory,

His life to destroy and to tarnish his fame: With but one star eclips'd on her ensign of fame,

Have failed; like the ancients in trials refining, E'en the foul persecuting-the bloody Missouri!

He's gained to himself a more excellent name. Our lov'd country's disgrace, and humanity's shame!

The baseness of Reynolds, of Boggs and of Carlin, Then hail! to the Chief, who has come home in glory,

Were shown forth as clear as the sun at noonday, As free and exulting as angels that fly

By the Fed'ral Attorney, in plea the most sterling O'er the high Rocky Mountains or plains of Missouri,

In which he portray'd where the villain lay: Where the bones of our dear murder'd brethren now lie.

The progress of error he set forth most clearly, Now let us unite with heartfelt exultation.

From bloody Missouri in this, our own land; And with ten thousand voices our accents [accent] renew,

And with just indignation, exclaimed most sincerely For the spirit of Freedom is still in our nation,

That Carlin, his dog, would have screen'd that demand. And has giv'n our lov'd Gener'l, safe back to Nauvoo.

The Times and Season, 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 & 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.