--- 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: 24 published: 1845-01-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“The Seer,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 24 (January 1, 1845): 767." printed_title: THE SEER. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-01-01_5_24 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n24.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_1845-01-01_5_24 start_page: 767 end_page: 767 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 1845 (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_1845-01-01_5_24 publication_year: 1845 --- # The Seer Written for the dedication of the Seventy's Hall, and dedicated to President BRIGHAM YOUNG. BY JOHN TAYLOR. TUNE-The Sea. The seer; -the seer:-Joseph the seer- The saints;-the saints; his only pride, I'll sing of tae Prophet ever dear: For them he liv'd for them he died! His equal now cannot be found,- Their joys were his;-their sorrows too;- By searching the wide world around. He lov'd the saints;-he lov'd Nauvoo, With Gods he soared, in the realm of day; Unchanged in death, with a Saviors love And men he taught the heavenly way. He pleads their cause, in the courts above. The earthly seer! the heavenly seer, The seer;-the seer-Joseph the seer! I love to dwell on his mem'ry dear:- O, how I love his memory dear, The chosen of God, and the friend of men, The just and wise, the pure and free, He brought the priesthood back again, A father he was, and is to me, He gazed on the past, on the present too;- Let fiends now rage in ;heir dark hour;- And ope'd the heav'nly world to view. No matter, he is beyond their power. Of noble seed-of heavenly birth, He's free;-he's free;-the Prophet's free! He came to bless the sons of earth: He is where he will ever be, With keys by the Almighty given, Beyond the reach of mobs and strife, He opened the full rich stores of heaven, He rests unharm'd in endless life, O'er the world that was wrapt in sable; night, His home's in the sky;-he dwells with the Gods, Like the sun he spread his golden light. Far from the furious rage of mobs. He strove,-O, how he strove to stay, He died; he died-for those he lov'd, The stream of crime in its reckless way- He reigns;-he reigns in realms above, With a mighty mind, and a noble aim He waits with the just who have gone before, He urg'd the wayward to reclaim: To welcome the saints to Zions shore; Mid the foaming billows of argry [angry] strife- Shout, shout ye saints-this boon is given, He stood at the helm, of the ship of life. We'll meet our martyr'd seer in heaven. The Times and Seasons, 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.