---
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: 20
published: 1844-11-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“By W. W. Phelps, Esq,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 20 (November 1, 1844): 703."
printed_title: BY W. W. PHELPS, ESQ.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-11-01_5_20
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n20.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_1844-11-01_5_20
start_page: 703
end_page: 703
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_1844-11-01_5_20
  publication_year: 1844
---

# By W. W. Phelps, Esq

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O say, when must I look for death? But say, when must I look for death?

When spring all nature's joy discloses; When autumn smiles on summer's treasure;

When infant beauty buds like roses; When youth and age are full of pleasure;

When fortune smiles so blithe and clever; When wise men reason; statesmen rattle;

When love and life look on "forever:;- When warriors rush so gay to battle;

Ah, then the sweeper steals thy breath! Ah, then the sweeper steals thy breath!

But say, when must I look for death? But say, when must I look for death?

When summer clothes the earth in beauty; When winter strips the earth of glory;

When manhood strengthens us for duty; When age has honor'd locks, all hoary;

When children bless the lot paternal; When e'er you're on the deep-blue ocean;

When being hopes to be eternal;- When e'er you know old time's in motion;-

Ah then the sweeper steals thy breath! Ah, then the sweeper steals thy breath!

The Times and Seasons Is 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 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

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.