| Show our boyhood amid the gr green een mountains Mountain of vermont it grew from fro m an imported grafted ted into a wild stock on the loth of april and bloomed on the og 0 june beat this MY FIFTIETH YEAR tear i ay iy BY P r P PRATT I 1 am fifty gifty years old I 1 have lived lo 10 see sea seven times limes seven and a jubilee that period famed in it the days of yore AP ar a grand release for the tile humble poor when pledged estate was again restored and A ud the bondman freed from his tyrant lord when man his fellow was bound to forgive and begin anew a new to think and to live tite toe nations have haind the year of my birth As a jubilee to the groaning earth the triumphs of steam over overland land and sea have the age ape of my jubilee I 1 have marad its progress ress at evry stride from the dabit day it was launched laun iaun clid oil on the hudsons Hud sons tided tide tlde till it conquers conquer conque rd ld the ocean grasped the land and ana johnd tile the nations in a common band I 1 have elivd to behold the yield to the inan mandate date of man an and if take the field As aba asa servant runner to bear the news lu in an instant where its lord might ch chooser and scarce less strange I 1 have livid to behold jl 4 mormon sage with his wand of gold overturn the tha world and toss it up asa teller of fortunes would his cup t all these are facts but of little worth compared with a prophet restored to earth I 1 have seen his day and have heard his voice which enraged a world while the meek rejoiced I 1 have read the fate of all earthly things the end of thrones and the end of kings I 1 have learned that truth alone shall stand and the kingdom of god fill every land I 1 haag seen that kingdom rolling along and taking its seat mid be lie mountains st strong strond while the nations wondered but could not tell teil tel tei to what these thesa woud wonderous erous things would swell I 1 have wandered far over land and sea to L 0 proclaim to the tile world its destiny de stilly ito wil to cry to the nations repent and live and ba be ready the bridegroom to receive I 1 have wandered far I 1 have wandered wide wont vont fr om maine to the wild massouris Mis souris tide and over the oceans sea girt isles full many a weary thousand miles I 1 have trampled the tha deserts buffin burning 9 sands and the snow clad mountains of unknown lands mid the tile crystal waters of deseret I 1 have pulled the oar and cast the net I 1 have bave climbed the steeps steels s mid the golden ore olen oler lle ile lie the lone pacific shore I 1 have plowed its bosom many a day to visit the nations far a awas away v ay 1 have stood oil on chilis distant shore where the polar volar star is seen no more I 1 have gazed on the tile andes heights of snow and roamed mid the he flowery plains below I 1 llave toiled with the great in it freedoms calis calls cause and ass assisted sted to give to a state its laws have lain in a dungeon bound in ili chains and been honored in courts where justice reigns in ili a thousand joys and a thousand fears I 1 have struggled on through my fifty years and now nov by the law of god I 1 am free I 1 will seek to enjoy my jubilee I 1 will hie me home to iny my mountain dell and will sy say to the christian world farewell I 1 have served ye long iong a thankless task wk to retire in peace is all I 1 ask another fifty years will fully prove our message true and all our motives love then shall a humble world in reverence bow and hall hail the prophets so rejected now kings shall revere and nations incense bring to zions ter temple tempie and to zions kill king I 1 shall be there and celebrate the d day ay till twice ten teil fifties fillies shill shtil have passed away the first steamboat was launched in 1807 on the hudson hudgon river by robert fulton tan an american soldier of 0 the mormon battalion discovered e 0 vered the tho gold enines in california in 1847 0 |
