Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate/Volume 2/Number 1/Hymns

HYMNS.

Now we'll sing with one accord,

For a prophet of the Lord,

Bringing forth his precious word,

Cheers the saints as anciently.

When the world in darkness lay,

Lo, he sought the better way,

And he heard the Savior say,

"Go and prune my vineyard, son!"

And an angel surely, then,

For a blessing unto men,

Brought the priesthood back again,

In its eminent purity.

Even Joseph he inspires:

Yea, his heart he truly fires.

With the light that he desires

For the work of righteousness.

And the book of Mormon true,

With its cov'nant ever new,

For the Gentile and the Jew,

He translated secretly.

The commandments to the church,

Which the saints will always search,

(Where the joys of heaven perch,)

Came through him from Jesus Christ.

Precious are his years to come.

While the righteous gather home,

For the great Millenium.

Where he'll rest in blessedness.

Prudent in this world of woes,

He will triumph o'er his foes,

While the realm of Zion grows

Purer for eternity.

P.

Composed on the going down of the sun on the last day of summer, 1835.

The sun that declines in the far western sky,

Has rolled o'er our heads till the summer's gone by;

And hush'd are the notes of the warblers of spring

That in the green bow'r did exultingly sing.

The changes for autumn already appear.

A harvest of plenty has crown'd the glad year;

While so't smiling a phyrs, our fancies to please.

Bring odors of joy from the laden fruit trees.

As the summer of youth passes swiftly along,

And silvery locks soon our temples adorn:

So the fair smiling landscape and flowery lawn,

Though lost is their beauty their glory has come:

O when the sweet summer of life shall have fled,

Her joys and her sorrows entomb'd with the dead,

Then may we by faith like good Enoch arise,

And be crown'd with the just in the midst of the skies.

Descend with the Savior in glory profound,

And reign in perfection when satan is bound;

While love and sweet union together shall blend

And peace, gentle peace, like a river extend.