| Show The Poets Poet's Corner Dug up from Westminster Abbey and brought here for your especial benefit There is a pleasure in poetic pains That only poets know Cowper Cowfer 0 STAR OF THE WEST s Far beyond those restful mountains Whose grand peaks speak hope alway Sinks the sun in in peaceful slumber II While the earth grows cold and gray Soft the wind night-wind moaning sighing Lulls fair Utah now to sleep Men forget in in gentle slumber Pain and worry things that keep Men upon the rock forever Dull their minds and make them seem seem Merely beasts and not creations s In Gods God's s image hopes hope's fond dream H Peaceful grows the quiet valley vaHey As abroad both far and near spreads his soothing mantle Harbinger of morrows morrow's cheer Men forget their selfish scheming Women pay not worry's toll While oer o'er cabin mart and mansion Peace's sweet benedictions roll All around is darkened stillness Till there flashes from the gloom One by one the twinkling beacons Of or the land beyond the tomb Soon there gleams in in purest radience One fair lair star of brightest hue j Shines in in clearer steadier beauty n i Silvers Silver's star so strong and true j 4 As I gaze in in silent wonder At the beauty of its glow It appears to shed its radiance J oj j l' l In vast beams as white as snow 6 r And along these gleaming pathways P s As they stretch across the sky Ir Shining forth in in silvery whiteness I I Stand those words so true for aye I x R Peace on earth good will to mortals mortals' t As the angels sang of old How they fill our hearts with gladness f With a wealth of joy untold f I And now the song of Utah Echoed from a thousand hills r Greeting to her Union sisters c While her soul with gladness thrills Silver orb of western heavens n Shine forever oer o'er our land Teach us that will good-will to neighbors fi yr t I Is Gods God's s grand and great command t fI n Jr v |
