---
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: 23
published: 1846-02-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Song of Life,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 23 (February 15, 1846): 1134–1135."
printed_title: SONG OF LIFE.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1846-02-15_6_23
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n23.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_1846-02-15_6_23
start_page: 1134
end_page: 1135
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 1846 (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_1846-02-15_6_23
  publication_year: 1846
---

# Song of Life

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What say the woods when soft winds sigh The thrush and linnet in the thorn,

Their gentle evening lullaby, Raising their voice to meet the morn;

When every leaf on every spray The skylark, as he shakes the dew

Catches the zephyrs as they stray; From off his wings, and flies from view,

What is their language, poet, say? To sing his lays in ether blue-

They sing of life; All sing of life;

They sing of life. All sing of life,

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The soft, sweet breath of gentle spring, To echo their tremendous roar-

Calling the earth to blossoming: Doth sing of life;

The nectrous drops of summer showers, Doth sing of life;

Opening the leaves of lovely flowers,

To smile upon this earth of ours What saith yon bright-haired happy boy,

Doth sing of life; With bounding step, and look of joy,

Doth sing of life. Dreams he that aught [ought] but joy can be

His loud, mild laugh of artless glee,

The bees, which store their waxen cells, His gladsome voice is sweet to me.-

With honied spoils of fox-glove bells; It sings of life;

The flies which, on the sun's bright ray, It sings of life;

Wanton their thread of life a day,

In restlessness and sport away- All things which meet the wand'ring eye,

All sing of life; From flowery earth to starry sky;

All sing of life. The joy of morn, the calm of even,

All on the earth, in air, in heaven,

The gentle ripples of the sea, All which a bounteous God hath given-

Its mountain waves, in maddening glee, Doth sing of life;

Dashing their foam wreaths o'er the shore, Doth sing of life;

Calling on cliff and rock so hoar