Show THE MORMON PIONEER written for the mormon pioneers seni semi l jubilee helf held in salt lake city utah july etli 1 i hall pioneer your day has ome come both dream and prophecy are naw now fulfilled most gloriously in this dour our jubilee your countrymen at last confess the debt they owe to you and all the world looks on this day and says bays the debt is due from tar far and near come voids that tell the burden you have borne the outcast is a hero now and praise has followed scorn you left nauvoo the beautiful exiled from freedoms sod mid snow and ice and winters blasts the wilderness aou ou trod on oil dark massouris Mis souris lonely bank gethsemane you found and there with bursting breast you laid beneath an ail unmarked mound the idol of bour our heart your friend lour tender child your wife for famine and dread pestilence deaths harvesters were rife your weary westward march you took led on oil by ralth faith alone your eyes the end saw not but when each lay day was done your camp fire was a bethel and between the earth and sky were angels angela whispering words of cheer and saying god is nigh you bravely faced the terrors of a pathless sea of sand nor knew that in its heart would be your unknown beulah land your touch the face of fatute changed the desert disappeared and farms and gardens lines ines and flowers the gladdened landscape cheered where parched and ashen wastes had been fair villages were seen and art and science flourished while oer all peace reigned supreme A transformation marvelous as wrought by power divine subdued the very elements where eer you set your shrine in poverty and pain pahi and grief you bull ded stone on stone nor thought to live to see the walls wails surmounted by a donie dome but lot lo 10 ere yet your sun bun is set a states majestic pile has risen on oil those basic stones you laid with hopeful toll from out your sacrifice sac rafice has grown this refuge for the free whose orb like dome dollie sends forth the of glorious destiny who would nauvoo the beautiful today with grief recall or vengeance seek upon the heads of those who caused her tall and direful winter quarters its grief and misery who thinks to mar with words of them this joyous jubilee let memory hold bold them as it holds some fevered vanished dream or as it would a ripple pa passed ed upon lifes marled stream near halt half a continent redeemed rede emeil an empire vast subtitled subdued A building people grown a mighty multitude the riches of the tabled fabled east redoubled oer and oer disclosed among these mountain vales to swell our count rys store these are arc tile the fruits of that great flight in the desert drear far which our nation laurel crowns the mormon pioneer give glory to the pilgrims Pil grinis true who planted freedoms tree give glory to the marlyis brave who made our country tree free give glory to the patriots who followed where grant led or consecrated gettysburg with their devoted blood give glory to the good and great whose deeds have blessed their race but see that in this galaxy our pioneer has place for when the book Is written that shall name each hero brave each conqueror each ach martyr who has labored men to save each nobleman of nature each true friend of ills his kind that history in each country and in every age may find in letters bright upon the page in fullest sense the peer of all the great ones there will be the mormon pioneer B P r cummings in llabona Lla hona the elders journal |