The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-26
THE ROYAL PIONEER.

Let age and youth this natal day
With one accord glad tribute pay:
Rare flowers of love strew far and near
Before the royal pioneer.
The victors' wreaths of laurel bring.
And proud the song of welcome sing.
And tell his quests to glad the ear,
OF the triumphant pioneer.
And with the flags of jubilee
Signal earth's myriads to see
The aureole time weaves fore'er
Round his ideal pioneer.
Whose presence is before us now.
In noble mien. but on whose brow
The burrows of many a year
Point TO the age-crowned pioneer.
For years have swiftly glided by
Since he, with youthful pulses high.
Left his fair home and kindred dear
To be a western pioneer.
Since he. with wife. or sweetheart true,
With earnest comrades not a. few,
Began the journey. oft severe,
OF the courageous pioneer.
Who crossed the plains in days gone by.
With added dangers often nigh.
OF wild tribes, in their mad career,
Skulking to trap the pioneer.
Behind the mists of fifty years,
He halted here. with thankful tears;
And. kneeling. prayed that he might rear,
With every other pioneer,
A church and home for all who came
Gods children everywhere. by name;
Then turned unto his life-work clear
That of Mormon pioneer.
Fen while still tenting on the ground,
Where not one dear, familiar sound.
Save their own voices. they sJuld hear,
Each faithful. sun-browned pioneer
Began: ah. better than he knew.
To build with steady hands and true,
His temples on the wild frontier
The desert of the pioneer.
And opened roads DER waste and plain
And cultivated fields of grain,
And bade each traveller welcome here
The kindly-hearted pioneer;
Whose lot it was to fight and pray,
In turn to toll by night and day;
To gladstone be, and then austere-
Thus time rolled by the pioneer.
Who struggled with the worldly snares,
That paved his way with daily cares,
Ger all sustained by faith sincere
So lived the patient pioneer.
And thus, tween sunlight and the shade
OF faith and works. and hopes that fade,
He wrought in outlines bold and clear
The legends of the pioneer.
And these upon the scroll of time
Appear. the legacy sublime
He leaves to man. No wind can veer
The halo from the pioneer.
Fair nature. on his natal day,
Doth in bright robes herself array,
And smiles approval of the seer
Who gave to US the pioneer;
fields of waving grain and flow
erS.
Her choicest greetings year by year,
In Difference to the pioneer.
Then let us, in grand unison,
With hallelujah cheers and welcome,
Salute the skies with praises sheer,
In honor of the pioneer.
And reverent heed the old-new story,
OF those early times, when. glory
Sned not single ray to cheer
The staid, heroic pioneer.
When he. through faith and hope and
love
The troublous times and scenes so drear.
Attendant on the pioneer,
To these ripe harvests far away.
Bright fields wherein, in life's fair day,
He'd reap the full corn in the ear.
Sown by the Christian pioneer.
This the dear hope the beacon light.
That cheered by day and soothed by
night,
And made cen clouds of care appear
As naught above the pioneer.
To wear. when at life's journeys end.
The starry crown of mans commend.
Which. through the God whom they re-
we're,
Awaits each stalwart pioneer.
rhen to his honor let the throng
Sing praiseful anthems. loud and long;
49, rnFa f,e.t
The royal Deseret pioneer.
TRIrE