Show THE BUGLE BLAST Address to the Touiigr HIcii of Utah IlylTIrs Prances Ulnar Young Utah arise at the sound of the blast Sent forth from the bugle of justice at last By the deepvoiced command of the General of Right Arrayed in his glory and armed for the I fight lJ t Gun oii cease Rise to strike for Liberty Virtue and Peace Wait not for the bugles last echoes to die On the mountains cloud capped that point to the sky sk They who soonest respond to the sound of the blast Will have stars to shine brightest when the strife shall have passed And success and joy in these valleys to bloom When scattered are the clouds of priestcraft and gloom Oh think of the trials that you have known Who dared not oncouragethoughts of their I ow i Would have caused them to think or to act not in accord With church leaders claiming their power from the Lord Rise the Lord God of every bright sun throughout space Has no churchmen for favorites whom His Name would disgrace Think of the long wars of bitterest woe Your mothers and sIster in these vales have passed through When their husbands at the bidding of elders and priests Degraded themselves by living like beasts Crushing out womans love the gift of Natures Na-tures just G Until heartbroken the victims were laid Unt neath the sod With invincible strength and united arise Remembering your poor mother heartbroken heart-broken ones When polygdity caused hell where sweet joy should have been And the name of religion was a sanctified sin Strike now for the sacredness of home to maintain With indomitable courage and strength in the aim Demand in the name of the right Liberty Demand that the State from the Church shall bo free That men may be nobler and have minds of their own To maintain law and order and sacred the home And that women pure and beautiful with sweet trust again In God and in men may her chastity maintain main-tain FAIBVIEW Sanpete Co July 13 1887 |