---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1845 to 1846.
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: 6
number: 17
published: 1845-11-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“By Miss Eliza R. Snow,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 17 (November 15, 1845): 1039."
printed_title: By Miss Eliza R. Snow
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-11-15_6_17
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n17.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_1845-11-15_6_17
start_page: 1039
end_page: 1039
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_1845-11-15_6_17
  publication_year: 1845
---

# By Miss Eliza R. Snow

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O my Father, thou that dwellest I had learn'd to call thee father

In the high and glorious place; Through thy spirit from on high;

When shall I regain thy presence, But until the key of knowledge

And again behold thy face? Was restor'd, I knew not why.

In thy holy habitation In the heav'ns are parents single?

Did my spirit once reside? No, the thought makes reason state;

In my first primeval childhood Truth is reason-truth eternal

Was I nurtur'd near thy side? Tells me I've a mother here.

For a wise and glorious purpose When I leave this frail existence-

Thou hast plac'd me here on earth, When I lay this mortal by,

And withheld the recollection Father, mother, may I meet you

Of my former friends and birth: In your royal court on high?

Yet oft times a secret something Then, at length, when I've completed

Whispered you're a stranger here; All you sent me forth to do,

And I felt that I had wandered With your mutual approbation

From a more exalted sphere. Let me come and dwell with you.

City of Joseph, Oct. 1845.

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.