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Show I' OGDEN'S QUOTA FOR BATTALION I FUND 80 PER CENT SUBSCRIBED; j -.' DR. A. C. CONDON WRITES POEM 11 Ogden's quota of the fund for the H Mormon Battalion mcmorinl has been H SO per cent subscribed, announced I James H. Douglas, local campaign I chairman today. Ogden was allotcd I approximately $12,000 nnd of this I amount $11,700 has been raised. I The following poem, written by Dr. A. S. Condon of this city and dedicated I to the late Judge Thomas D. Dee, was awarded the prize of ?100 in the Terrl-lorial Terrl-lorial Memorial competition. It is published again at the request of the local committee in the interest of the Mormon Battalion fund campaign: The Mormon Higcra. 1847. By DR. A. S. CONDON. Where Florence by the river's bearded Hp Looks o'er the prairies, like a sea at rest, ' f- They .pledged themselves to ideal fcl- ; lowship t - These bold pathfinders to the mighty west. In visipn., born of dreams in troubled sleep, They saw the cross transfigured, and the crown; Saw red ravines 'where foes like shad-j shad-j ows creep, And their white bones on deserls bare and brown, fcaw, too, the wastes low shelving, far away Where the dull sky shuts down its hollow rim, " And obscure roads, .hat blindly go I astray, ' ' ' I And sunken" landmarks, overgrown I and dim. " .. j In sleep they heard the savage midnight mid-night cry ' Kelt on their brows the wind's ' fierce pulses beat ' taw spectres of disaster ever nigh Dreamed of old scenes they nevermore never-more would greet. But Hope saw" fields with leemfng life coulent. And clouds of billowing furnace fires aglow, And spangled meadow,' dyed" with flowers besprent,"" And valleys broad whose bounties overHow. Trusting in Him who faVhiuns all our., clay They, trod the wine u'CSa of a gricv ous task; ... lr And though their wknfcs pressed-sorely day by day, , ' i So was their ,-hsIpt-nor further: did they ask. ' ' ' ." , I But when the 'jour for "sundering .lies i I was come, T And hearts surcharged "whelmed 'j with resistless grief. J Then eyes looked v.-ords most elo-I elo-I quenlly dumb. I And pity made the bravest fare wells brief. So turned their faces toward the hostile hos-tile plains lJ.;St'-'' With hungry hearts no, yhtnttu could appease; ' v Nor conquest ntfilM litreoselflsh pains, I ' :' ' ... Seduced t hem front; the pluasr.nt ways of case. Slow moving on the sore-tried; pilgrims fared, Faint of long fasts, athirst, and spent for rest; v ' Nor -noon's lgnesceut beams their venom spared, '-- Nor demon cyclones that tlic. plains infest. The lambent cloud across their troubled path Its storm-exulting banners flung on high, And HUi.phurous bolts were hurled with Jovian wrath From castellated bastions of the sky. O Captains, half reluctant to proceed, Turn not yet back the disenchanted tnrong; .Nor yet; the ghosts of fear are worthy j little heed These wastes must echo ' your tri-j tri-j umphant song! " t. I Still on. while moous-lhriee waxed and J ' waned, and frost I Of April vanished in the summer's breath, i And- withered age, and lusty manhood lossed r j Through fevered nights, and bab-J bab-J bling. talked w.ith Death. j Sometimes, like Incense wafted from a J lomb, Or some Joved. Presence in a'trou-bled a'trou-bled hour, Rose lair the purpling castus -sweet with bloom, j But horrent 'armed to guard . Ulc I . precious flower. - i , ) ; '. . . The uuvny bion. though a memory now. Whose iootprin'.s fade by Lethe's I 'Uorelfrss sea, r TheA cuuntiqss" us the -lofcves on sum- i fuer's bojgh, . ' -.-t .Swarmed ro-jnd the cliravan, and ; r wild as free. - . ' ' The. Iriixzard, vagrant prophet, of the j' ' plain. , With head,a-droop, low-flying near j the ground, . -.." Follower intent the slow, portentous ' train, . frsjsnarki a stnTckoa. sjj'p from, sqa ; "inbound. tIjo wee; frail 'bathe that-came to ricw ; the Bcene j An added care, but still welcome j guest-Closed guest-Closed its sweet e:'cs of bluett b'.ue ; r.erene. Unmindful of the mother's torrow- Ing breast. ' The swollen stream, mad roaring, strong and wide, Plowed deep the ford, full safe an hour before, Lured them, unwarned, into its treach-. treach-. erous tide, To toss the. half-drowned wreckage to the shove.' Though dedicated' to a holy cause. It . could not )ill their yearning' thoughts repress; Foreboding fears made e'en the zealot .. pause; ' I aVnd hearts fell sick with prospects of distress. - I I J Toll-worn, but undismayed, at-last they stood j Whe:c Vulcan's - furrow through a I mountain lies. j And viewed a solitude thai henceforth i ' should j In their deft hands become a para-j para-j dise. I j Forthwith the hills stood out in em-j em-j orald green, '., And bird and blpom were- fairies of U ' , the vale. And whimpering brook?, their flowery j ' . banks bej.we.en,' j ,To listen Ing vinds told many a lov-i lov-i . er's ule. . n'oi- hand Utopian wrought tho won-: . drpus spell, I Nor dream Alnaschran solved the ' people's fate. For eeryv;hero the scribes of hlslorv tell That purpose strong &L courage built a state. " ,0 thou Crusader of a sacred past, (" "Who sleep In silence and pathetic i dust," , 'To thee as lif'ds reward has come at j ! last . j j A people's love, safe from Time's j ; crumbKng rust. i jAnd y'c who yci but trembling hold! life's stage, ' , I Though glad 'y.oung bauds their lau-j j rclij still bestow-; (The high applause palls on the ear of ! ago '' I And through the halls the nickering! lamps burn low. ! Bid guests "Good Night:" Full sute the rising dawn Will cull to higher' still and better things; And then, with earth's green curtain round ye. drawn, Your robes will be a royal robe of kings. i ---oo |