---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1844 to 1845.
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: 5
number: 1
published: 1844-01-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Queen Victoria,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 1 (January 1, 1844): 398–399."
printed_title: QUEEN VICTORIA.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-01-01_5_1
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n01.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_1844-01-01_5_1
start_page: 398
end_page: 399
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 1844 (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_1844-01-01_5_1
  publication_year: 1844
---

# Queen Victoria

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BY MISS E. R. SNOW.

Before leaving London, Elder Lorenzo Snow presented to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert; through the politeness of Sir Henry Wheatly, two neatly bound copies of the Book of Mormon, which had been donated by president Brigham Young, and left in the care of elder Snow for that purpose; which circumstance suggested the following lines:

Of all the monarchs of the earth A herald of salvation bore

That wear the robes of royalty To her, the words of endless life.

She has inherited by birth

The broadest wreath of majesty. That GIFT, however fools deride,

Is worthy of her royal care;

From her wide territorial wing She'd better lay her crown aside

The sun does not withdraw it's light; Than spurn the light reflected there.

While earth's diurnal motions bring

To other nations day and night. O would she now her influence bend-

The influence of royalty,

All earthly thrones are tottering things, Messiah's kingdom to extend,

Where lights and shadows intervene; And Zion's "nursing mother" be;

And regal honor often brings

The scaffold or the guillotine. Thus with the glory of her name

Inscrib'd on Zion's lofty spire,

But still her scepter is approv'd- She'd win a wreath of endless fame,

All nations deck the wreath she wears; To last when other wreaths expire.

Yet, like the youth whom Jesus lov'd,

On [One] thing is lacking, even there. Though over millions call'd to reign-

Herself a powerful nation's boast;

But lo! a prize possessing more 'Twould be her everlasting gain

Of worth, than gems with honor rife- To serve the king, the Lord of Hosts.

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For there are crowns and thrones on high, In distant isles the sound is heard;

And kingdoms there, to be confer'd- Ye heavens rejoice! O earth give ear!

There honors wait that never die;

There fame's immortal trump is heard. The time, the time is now at hand

To give a glorious period birth;

Truth echoes-'tis Jehovah's word; The Son of God, will take command

Let kings and queens and princes hear. And rule the nations of the earth.