Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-10
Bishop Whitney Produces Great Poem.

Of the next section, IL deals with the
opening Of the latter.day dlspensauon,
with Joseph the Seer proclaiming the
restoration Of the Gospel and the Holy
Priesthood.
Gods burden, Hear Il, natlons Hear
It, isles!
Ere day-davn falls nights darkest
hour OF doom
The Trial ends-the Judgment now be-
gins.
out, out Of her, my people, saith your
Wherefore a Noble Of the Skies came
ON earths broad stage, mighty role
a. play
In Tines great tragedy whose acts are
seven.
The ancestry Of noble souls is traced
back to heaven Earthly genius is not
accidental The great OF earth were
known aforetlme. and among them
Joseph lowered pre-eminently, one Of
those who come
AS patriots, statesmen and philoso-
piers
Founders Of empire, and ioonoclasts
or many an earthly idol
Masters Of melody, whose magic wakes
| From earthly harps the echoes or
eternity.
The Prophets history is given in
outline up to the time Of the appear
ance upon the scene Of the angel who
IL the custodian Of the golden plates
that were the original Of the Book OF
Mormon. The consummated work begun
by the Latter-day Prophet Is summar-
ICED in the following paraphrase;
The Lord His ancient people hath re-
deemed,
TIE Lord hath gathered all things into
QUE
Satan is bound and time shall be no
| mOgCi
'che Lord hath brought up Zion from
bcneath
| Tie Lord hath brought down Zion from
above;
And heaven on earth hath smiled. AMI
she Is clothed
In garments as the glory Of her God,
Who standeth in the midst foreVermore
The next oanto, From Out the
ruSt." Is the story Of the Jaredite and
Nephite races. based upon the Book OF
Mormon, but containing many origina
conceptions OF the author; notably th'
great moral drawn, By him from tn
J tragic fate Of those prehistoric nations
whose history is assumed by the poe
to have been related By Moronl to tn
youthful Prophet az the Hill Cumorah
p,lor to the delivery OF the ancient re
cord into his hands. Says the angel
once a Nephite Prophet, TO the Seer o
latter days;
My native land and thine is freedom
own;
Redeemed by retrlbution Ger and DER
When all else sank defiled, this sol
alone
Was sacred kept, a consecrated shore
Whose God, the God OF freedom, justly
swore
No tyrant should this chosen land de
file;
And nations here. that for seasoi
bore
The palm Of power, must righteous
be the while,
Or ruins torch should swiftly ligh
their funeral pile.
Race upon race has persisted in IL
pride;
And nations lustrous as the stars o
heaven
Have sinned and sunk, in reckless sui
eide,
On this same soil, since that drea,
word was given.
Realms battlefront and regions temp
est-riven;
The ruin-swept land for ages desc
late:
It's wretched remnant blasted. curse,
and driven
Forth by the furies Of reyengefu
fate.
TIL Wonder asks IN vain, What Of thei
former state?
Then is narrated the story Of the an
cient American races. with prophet
glimpse Of Columbia future upon 9TH
land OF Zion" portrayed with elo
quence and power in flowing stanzas
The canto concludes with this commits
son laid upon the Prophets
smite thou that sin Of self. which bind
the world
In letters mutifarious and strong
That sin most serpentine, round al
men curled,
In whose fell folds fair earth hat
wriihed full long.
To loose the coil doth unto thee belong
To free mems souls from sordi
tyranny,
Be sacrifice the burden Of thy song
And self once slain, from sin worl
IL free,
And basks forever in the boon OF lib
erty.
Then follows a canto Of remarkabl
power and insight. entitled "The Al
cana Of the Infinite" inwhich are sum
married. those sublime doctrines whic
are embodied in the revelations give
directly 10 the Prophet OF the last dis
tensat!on., This canto undertakes