Show for the deseret news WELL THY TIME BY B SNOW stay child of ditth and from thy sunny path of gay frivolity light painted aisted oer with fairy spots of richly coloured flo flohrs flow rs and festive scenes where lings the joyous laugh and light fantastic feet urge on tile llie dance to cheat us of the slowly passing hours each one of which from the remaining few of that brief span between us and the grave lessens one even tho though ugh thou miss it not turn aside with me look on oil other scenes of sterner visage with which you and 1 I must become acquaint ere we pass this life from the ideal sketches richly penciled pencil ld oer the fabric of 0 thy mind by that nymph time cheating fancy to those more real see you that dwelling faintly brought t to sight by the pale moon beams smuggling gling through the oak whose branches wide extended to shade its humble roof list you no sound is heard save oer head bead the rustling 11 othe withered leaves obedient yielding to the autumn breeze through 11 the casement a feeble light is seen and deadly silence reigns profound within good design our abruptness shall excuse while we make bold to enter Soh softly lynow now let not dot our heavy feet disturb this scene tween hem hean in and earth time and eternity for ere long you ana and I 1 must act it too there stands a couch a table near beside supporter of a light whose feeble rays reveal upon the couch the prostrate form of man inan a saint who all his bis life hath bath sought and heeded the council of his god sunken his features a deathlike death like paleness Is oer him now but despair is not there to print her shades upon his fenerd brow but all serene a smile is playing there gadient victor oer his every pain triumphant beacon light through deaths dark vale the smile of hope sure anchor of the soul his chosen partners dear around him stand dhove shared his toil in this terrestrial sphere and with him will celestial glories share theirs is keen sorrow but not without hope they lean not on a broken staff or reed I 1 look some change comes oer him now a bright bi ight smile I 1 lights up his pale features and anxious anxious hearts breathless wait wondering what may be the cause his lips all motionless before now move I 1 list he speaks jye ye to me most tear dear on oil earth carlli why y weep for or me I 1 am bul U going home iome me messengers I 1 are here H headd rd ye e not their voice voiced th aSSey sp e we comp eliy father a bid us come e and comfort thee eel in in this thy sa sad p parting in hour and lead thee hence to taste of greater ea joys over the few things T he to you hath g gian in thou hast been fa faithful i nl nor hast sq squandered uander ld aught of time or tallent talent to thee entrusted aich day thy angel brought a good report leport of how bow thy ads acts had gained thee some new friend who subdue by thy kind and godlike god like deeds forthwith pray grayd d god would make him like to thee how each passing hour found thy thoughts emp employed lyd H how ow t to to improve in ove thyself and fellow men thou shall be e made ruler over many thin things I 1 s 1 11 elen een thus they to me with joy I 1 leave farewell carewe Fai ewell 1 imy my dear ones ye too soon shall come colef f see see t they the y call me now HOW 1 1 I come I 1 conier come his spirits fled but the smiles playing still I 1 where elen een deaths cold seat heal cannot erase it gay one say thou die a death like this without a painful thought of ill spent hours i to prove a thorn beneath thy pillow pi llowd la head heed thou the passing time improve it well 5 nor let Yet festivity encroach too much on oil your affections or 01 1 the e precious pie cious time allotted you in this pro probation aaion state then the death of the righteous iliou diou die and thy approaching end be elen like his hib great SAU salt luke lake city dec leui 1852 1851 I 1 I 1 |