The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-12-08
A Plea For The Sighted Ones
Selected by Robert Baxter,
Hyrum, Utah

And when rich men their feasts provide '---- 30
With dainties collected from far and wide
When pleasures smiles beam all around
And all rejoice at sweet muscs sound:
Do they think Of those that labored long,
To build the mansion fair and strong?
Wrought all the comforts around them spread
The clothes they wear their daily bread?
Fought their battles. with foreign foes?
: Shielded their homes from a host woes?
Braved winters cold and summers heat
To store with plenty the rich retreat?
While they perchance in poverty dwell,
Suffering more than they tell?
Some much endure. where little is said,
Go thnly clad and scanty fed
Many family noble and true,
Suffer a maryrdom shaded from view:
They should be both we'll housed and fed
Who build the houses and raise the bread!"
Who all their strength and talents employ,
To make the comforts the rich enjoy
With grateful feeling, they should take
The aborers their festivities share
The poor, the aged infirm and blind
Should also be kindly borne in mind
And If they might not come to the feast,
They should be thought of at home, at least.
The Savior poor man could be.
When he sojourned in mortality
He despsed the poor MANNED
But each u portion of sympathy claimed.
Then while you rejoice in the blessings conveyed,
BY the sacrifice Jesus Calvary made,
Think, you sit at sumptuous board,
or those VINO can scarcely esSenlalS
Remember that God is the Father of ALL
That all partakers of DEATH by the fall,
Who when with his leyelling dart shall strike,
The kings and the beggars will all be alike,
And nothing claim on the earth will be ours
Until guaranteed by the Heavenly Powers.
VII.
Young men, to your parents counsel give heed,
And grieve not their feelings by word or deed,
In your childhood their stout supported you well
And they loved you far better than language can tei'
In return, in weakness and age they descend,
Let your strong the Pickering life lamp defend;
urn which they lavished you, The kindness ret
Yes, cheerfully cancel the debt which is due
If neglect unkindness to them you have shown,
That sin to yourself and your parents is known
Like a cankerworm eating, destroys their peace,
And none but yourselves bring them release.
Your acknowledge, without more delay
And seek their forgiveness-theyll soon pass away
Can you tell me the worth when your parents are
OF the words Il forgive you God bless you son?"
You will value them more than diamonds or gold,
When lips that have said them are silent and cold.
Young maidens revere their instructions too
Their hearts full of good wishes for you;
They have guarded your interest, have sought your
With the fervor of love parents only can feel;
They have guided your feet through earlier years.
Have went err your sickness banished fears,
Protected each lamb in the family fold,
Have fed you and screened you from hunger and
cold;
Have sympathzed with you in every distress
Their efforts untirng their offspring to bless;
And now that their heads silvered by tme
To treat them unseemly would be great crime.
Revere their advice their age and their love-
And angels will watch you with Joy from above;
But treat their affection with sighting scorn,
,Twere better for you, you had never been born,
To them, with poeness, ever seek to beha'e
Make happy by kindness, their path to the grave;
Then when on the earth longer they dwell
IT will comfort your hearts, il you've treated them
we'll
And parents, by precepts of wisdom, prepare
The hearts of your children life's trials to bear;
Expect not more than they really can do
Won would think that hard II required OF you;
But study their frame, their nature their powers
For over exactions the best temper sours;
And slight not the that trouble their breasts
Nor always refuse their little requests
Re quick to forgive when OF wrongs they repent
Al their ouyerng lip let your bosom reent;
IL a little one cannot its sorrows disclose
tn ito narents where can it unburden its woes!
To whom should its for sympathy SEEK
Or IN have the big tears wiped away from It's cheeA
How sad a Young bosom, uncared for must ieei'
The heart that Iepeis>it, surely harder IMAM steer
William Clegg,
Springvlle Utah.