Show for the deseret newl new reflections on oil visiting 9 the city I 1 of BY JOHN HYDE sad silent solitary and alone I 1 paced the fallen streets of fair nauvoo I 1 marked the remnant of her beauty gone gon e As tot ring 11 piles of ruins rose to view what mournful mourna ua thoughts though Is that solemn sight inspired 1 1 ali ah how with grief my beating bosom burned burne I 1 I 1 sought the secret of a spot retired and scalding sto arto weeping eyes returned I 1 gazed upon thy temples sacred site and thought thou glit of tys munificence once hallowed shrine for oft a holy rite now crumbling 0 wreck of past magnificence 1 I 1 viewed the place where nauvoo mansion rose unroofed ofed unfinished falling to the eart earth h sin sign of the he guilt that stains thy bloody foes test of th obedience of thy sons of worth I 1 thy houseless streets in rank luxuriance crowned I 1 where ila happy homes in days davs were placed where desolation seems to reign around and fruitful plots appear a weary waste why thus deserted this was the sacred place for hallowed sounds of prophecy and god i the chosen home for best of human race whence truth and light 11 effulgent spread abroad 1 here taught the seers and here the faithful dwelt and basked in rays intelligent 11 divine here round Jebo Jehova hs altars thousands knelt and consecrated all upon his shrine where is the busy throng the cheering sound of hoppy happy indu inda contented toil where is the crowded part mart the culqui cultured ed ground robed in the harvests of a fertile soil I 1 can this be zion desert and forlorn A A forsaken city in the midst of life As though a curse on every breeze were borne I 1 and then with ills for human kind wert rife I 1 what foreign foe with desolating brand has burned destruction on thy lovely breast what dire disease with dread malignant hand has stamped a stigma or a curse what kings contending have combats combated ed there what fabled monsters s s talked stalked thy C city ity through I 1 and left thee de desolate deserted bare A shattered fragment ot of once fair nauvoo I 1 we read of tyre and cities of the plain sunk stink down to hell because of hellish crimes was ibis his thy doom or dost thou still remain to tell of judgments in these latter times lexor luxor carnac barnac thebes and memphis lie ag A monuments of egypto tame fame things of the past that like ike all things must die and only leave a vestige and a name great nineveh and babylon in pride exalted high t their turrets and their towers tower now swept away by times fell torrent tide En engolph gulph ed in sand their palaces and powers was this thy fate nauvoo have ages past since lived the day that first beheld thy birth that raided to heaven thou crummiest crumbiest crum biest blest back to dust and longst to join thine ancient mother earth thus mused my soul when truth to thought replied not tor for sin I 1 not internal jar no foreign foe his vene vengeance I 1 ance satisfied nor kings icings contending there spread civil war no centuries have hav e sped in haste away her fall call i later her history of today to day her butchered sons for her have ceased to feel victims to traitors and religious ous zeal their toes foes compatriots and their crime their creed fortois for Fort this bis ashes desolate arid and for this they bleed in human gore these thirsty fiends assuage i tile the maddened prompt inq of relentless rage i and some insatiate yet more devilish grown W e eaks puny vengeance on thy temples temp leo stone I 1 I 1 incited on by ire I 1 doth purge ahe abe desecrated spot with will fire and charred stumps and stones now tell of what she must have been and how she fell but c was joseph her impending doom I 1 pervades his bosom with a saddened gloom to strive to shield her from her threatening fate Hs all himself prepared to immolate A holy holocaust to hellish hate I 1 A noble patriot has he past away A murdered martyr is his shroud clad clay his work complete shall angels trumps proclaim to other world ibis actions and his nam till crowned as god lie he sh shall ail assume his sway king brot brother bari of the latter day and Mau Nau sons with other leaders blest have sought ani and found a temporary rest i A abdy shelter in the valley ed west westa c and left to future times to see sec thee rise rise I 1 first stake of zion glori glorious olis to the skies skie 11 an and d homesteads mansions temple overthrown shall re arise more lovely from ilie dust 1 while virtue claims thy children iLen as her own I 1 repays the wicked and rewards the just G S L city ot odber 15 I 1 r 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 secured I 1 |