---
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: 8
published: 1845-05-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“The Sky,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 8 (May 1, 1845): 895."
printed_title: THE SKY,
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-05-01_6_8
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n08.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_1845-05-01_6_8
start_page: 895
end_page: 895
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_1845-05-01_6_8
  publication_year: 1845
---

# The Sky

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BY W. W. PHELPS.

"The sky the sky-the clear blue sky"- The roomy space where clouds appear,

O how I love to gaze upon it! And terrify with awful thunder;

The upper deep of realms on high- And then to give our hearts good cheer,

I wonder when the Lord begun it? We see the rain-bow arch'd up yonder.

There systems roll in endless light, The universe of worlds, en masse,

(Aphelion or a perihelion;) So charmingly spread out, all over,

A noiseless round of day and night, The everlasting looking-glass,

Jehovah's beautified pavilion. The molten mirror of Jehovah!

The trackless way, where spirits go, The sky the sky-so bland and fair,-

From this cold world of stinging pleasure; O how I love to stand and view it!

To where they see, and taste and know, And when it "falls," may I be there,

Eternal life, the "heavenly treasure." To see the "King of Kings" renew it.

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.