The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-11-22
BY james A. Leishman

Music of the spheres that swells around you,
Filling your soul with gratitude and ave.
Till every fibre of your being throbs
with rhapsody of harmony and love-
And ere you ARE aware" you are on earth
Again, mong fruits and flowers in gayety,
And all things else botanical. You gaze
with wonder and amazement at the sight
OF myriad of plants perfect type
Each bearing seed of kind unfailngly.
You the Brute Creations multiforms
With appreciative admiration.
Akin to affeconate attachment.
The Geahered tribe ecs your esteem,
And fancy goats in pleasure to the full.
The insect world may tax your observation,
But in return your soul will find reward,
with of beauty and agility,
That is not in other realms of nature.
Your thirst for vastness. grandeur. be quenched
When you survey the waters of the deep
Vast oceans of the EARTH and gaze beneath,
And behold the myrads that swarm and sport
Amid the briny waters of the seas,
The rivers and the lakes throughout the earth.
The great Leviahan fills the volume
or your capacity of wonderment,
And other denizens of the deep give
Variety and zest unto the scene.
You pause and ponder at the works of God;
Each function of your soul has found balm
And solace, yea, delight without alloy.
Your thoughts turn inward, and in graver mood
You contemplate yourself and fellowman.
The browning piece of all Gods handiwork.
And then with all the yearning of your SOUL
Your intuition tells you that long
You will to gaze upon the marves
You have witnessed this subluner sphere.
This thought must not disturb make you fear,
The last agony of mortality
Nor make you "shudder" at the thought of pail
And shroud and the marrow house" unghted.
You recognize the allapparent truth
That all shall die and shall share your destiny.
And though your body be dissolved to dust,
Each atom is eternal The oak may
Send her roots abroad" and pierce thy mould"
BE not dismayed for eternal law,
Forbids the absorption your molecules,
And though perchance, you be devoured by beast
Or fish, or reptile, or make dainty meal
To a hungry canba the law
Stays assimilation absolutely.
'TwXt thee and the "unsensble rock"
There is parallel that both
Are matter, but thine, made pure and holy,
Yea sanctfed and made intelligent
By keeping all the laws of God, thereby
You have claim upon the resurrection.
Were this not of what utility
Is all the circumstance of life and toll
And grand array of opposites that test
Your soul bringing out the good within YOU
You cry enough. this mortal habitat
Is but the prelude to better life
so live" that when the summon comes" to you
Thou may'st be quick to the call,
For it's appointed that all shall die,
But to a enlightened of the Lord a 49,
He knows the program and is not abashed.
Thy eternal self shall not feel rupture =.
Barring a momentary qualm in change,
Neither thy identity be lost OF marred,
The requiem that We sing around your bier,
Our tears of sorrow shed your cold clay,
Will show how much we loved you here in life.
And having kept the faith shall be consoed -
We will see you clothed in heavenly attire,
Complacent as in pleasant Dreams" induced
BY perfect faith that brings eternal peace
by
And when you reach the paradsaical shore,
Your friends who're gone before shall welcome you
For bonds OF consanqunity remain.
Nor ties of kindred, broken by the change.
Rather they quickened and expanded.
This vale of tears forsoothe, through which you are
passed,
Will give you relish for that better life
The high, refined emotions OF the soul, -
Will have a wider latitude and touch,
Good fellowship with those whose capacities
Chime with thine own, shall be par excellent.
The good of all the ages thou may'st meet
And revel in bliss with saints and savants.
Your JOY will be complete when you regain
Your body made immortal and divine,
Thenceforth through Of the future shine.