Show S S WHEN THE PEOPLE SING Who was it expressed the belief that he could win the enduring fealty of ot a people If he could write the songs of ot Its children Up Brigham at the fhe other night when Governor Gov Spry assisted in the closing session seIo bf of f the farmers fa ers school s hool one one of the tho number on the program was a ason song son called Utah the Queen of ot the West Here is the song entire as taken from a copy of or Deseret Sunday School Songs The youth of each land for their father fatherland fatherland fatherland land stand And boast of ot its grandeur with pride Whatever their estate their fortune or fate To none is this freedom denied Then rhen why should not we young happy and free Rejoice in the land we love lore best beat For our fathers so kind our lot has as assigned assigned assigned signed In Utah the Queen of at the West The bold mountains rise and point to the skies Like sentinels round our abode And vales ales calm and sweet repose at their feet Fit home for the people of ot God From those cold bleak forms fit tIt dwellings for tor storms Flow streams God has blest Rich harvests have smiled In the deserts once wild wildIn wildIn In Utah the Queen of ot the West The Tho poor and oppressed in this land of ot the West Find plenty and freedom and Joy Though the wicked may sneer to us thou art dear And fair fall as thine own sunny sunn sky The gospels proclaimed to all a I here on onearth onearth onearth earth The meek and the lowly rejoice From Frem Babylon they flee to this land lend bt bf m the free freeTo freeTo freeTo To Utah the Queen of ot the West Thy sisters firstborn who tauntingly scorn Shall joy jo to do honor to thee With each coming cominS hour thy glory shall tower Till the nations thy beauty shall see Thy triumph Is nigh Oppression shall die For thee there is freedom and rest The years as they fleet shall bless our retreat With peace In this land of or the West Weste We e are not pretending to absolutely Indorse the poetry In places It Is I almost as faulty as some of the songs we non Mormons sing In church And we can cannot cannot cannot I not convey to the reader any ny Idea of the tha effect of the song because there Is no noway noway noway way in this column to present the mu music music music sic But let us declare the music is worthy that It Is full of or melody that It is Inspiring While the picked choir sang It was Interesting to watch the people all over the big audience who followed the words though with silent lips They knew It every line big and little people They had sung It In their Sunday schools time without number And If It ever a song sons stirred good emo enio emotions emotions In the souls of ot human beings that song stirred them Men Ien who are more familiar with the song sons say it Is the effect always They like to sing slog it and they enter Into the spirit of ot it with all the enthusiasm of or the earnest No Xo hypocrisy In the world could produce that result Those people mean It and they believe bellee It And It portend ill III for lor the state nor for the nation whan a great throng of children have bave been taught to loving lovingly ly sing sins of ot Utah the Queen of the West Vest |