---
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: 14
published: 1844-08-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“To Elder John Taylor,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 14 (August 1, 1844): 607."
printed_title: TO ELDER JOHN TAYLOR.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-08-01_5_14
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n14.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_1844-08-01_5_14
start_page: 607
end_page: 607
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_1844-08-01_5_14
  publication_year: 1844
---

# To Elder John Taylor

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Thou Chieftain of Zion! henceforward thy name When around you like hailstones, the rifle balls flew-

Will be class'd with the martyrs and share in their fame; When the passage of death open'd wide to your view-

Thro' ages eternal, of thee will be said, When the prophet's freed spirit, thro' martyrdom fled,

'WITH THE GREATEST OF PROPHETS HE SUFFER'D AND BLED. In your gore you lay welt'ring-with martyrs you

BLED.

When the shafts of injustice were pointed at HIM- All the SCARS from your WOUNDS, like the trophies of yore

When the cup of his suff'ring was filled to the brim- Shall be ensigns of honor till you are no more;

When his innocent blood was inhumanely shed, And by all generations, of thee shall be said

You shared his afflictions and with him you BLED. 'WITH THE REST OF THE PROPHETS, IN PRISON HE BLED.

July 27, 1844.