| Show THE MORMON PIONEER t I lull lonccrl Tour day has 1 camel Both dream and prophecy YAre Y-Are on fulnilcJ most gloriously In this Jour Jubilee Ca Your countrymen last confess tho debt lluy owe to you And I all the uorl looks on this lay and M ij MIlo debt U due S lrolll far and I near come words that tell tlio burden j ou Ito borne 1 q The outcast Is a 1 hero 1 now anti praise 1 has 1 followed scorn You left Nainoo the IkiutlluMexlled from freedom sod acid now and ice and winters blaets the wilderness OU trod On dark MU ourl a lonely bank Githsc i aim you found And I there with bursting bmist you laid beneath au unmarked 11 mound The Idol I of your heart 1 your friend j our tender child I your mm ICe icrtainli s and drcalt loUlen deaths harvesters were rift Your weary westward march you took led on by fallh alone Your night > llo cud saw not but n hen each day w as done I d Your lamp Ire w ai A buht and bets yen the earth and sky Were angels mm hllerlng word of cheer and lying God U nigh You bra ely faced the terrors of a pathless l Be > ot sand Nor knew that In Its Its heart ould bo jour unknown Jleulah land t Your touch the face of nature changed the desert dUipi eared And farms and Harden vines and flowers the gladdened I landscape 1 chtrn Where parched and I onhell wastes had 1 been lair v Illafecs Mire un And art and science nourished while oer all pence relKiied BUIrtint A transformation marvelous as s rou ht by Ironer divine Subdued them cry clement where eec you set y our shrine t In poverty and paht and lrlet y oumlldeol stone on tone I Nor thought to live to bee the walls surinouuu bj a dome m Hut lot cue yet jour sun ix bet n States majestic pile + Has risen on those basic stones you laid with hopeful I toll From out j our sacrlltco has srow u this refuge for ilia free Whose 01 b HLe dome sends forth Use light of glorious destiny Who would Nauvoo the Beautiful today with grIef recall I Or vengeance seek upon tho heads of those n ho caused her fall And direful Winter Quarters Its grief and misery Who thinks to mar with words of them tills Joyous Jubilee Let mi one v hold them as It holds sonic fevered vanished dream Or as It mm null u ripple passed upon l life t varied stream Near half continent r nice mod an empire vast subdued A tun le bull ling people growna mighty mullltu Tlio rlcl is of Ihe fabeI rest redoubled oer nllli 1 a cr Ultclosid among these mountain vales to uw ell our countrys store These are tho fruits of that treat flight Into the desert drear or filch our nation launsl cruwns the Mormon Pioneer The glory to the llgrlniH true who planted freedom tree GlIO glory to the martyrs brave who made our country free Give glory lo the pat tots who followed where Grant led Or consecrated Gettysburg with their devoted blood Gto glory to the gooo e1 great whoso duds ho blessed their race Hat see that In this galaxy our Pioneer ho place 1 or n ben 1 the book Is I w inter that shall name each hero brave I ach conqueror each martyr who has labored men to save Ieh nobleman at nature each true friend 01 hag kind Tl at history In each country and In every age may Iud 1 In letters bright upon the age in fullest sense the peer 01 IU l the great one there will be the Mormon Pioneer D F CUMIIINOS Ja |
