Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842

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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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“Mr. Fare Play,” Poem, to JS, [
Nauvoo
Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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, Hancock Co., IL], ca. late 1842; unidentified handwriting; twenty pages; JS Collection, CHL.

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And let us ev’ry practice vile forsake

That God may through his prophet true unfo<ld>

What has to man on Earth been never told

That misteries true to us may be reveald

Which was in by gone days from man <conceald>

O let us seek the Lord with single eye

And never more believe a tatling lie

(And of the tatlers vile be ever shy)

5 Those who have oft against our prophet <spake>

I wish they might like Beltesharis shake

(Until of them of tatling vile doth break)

Such tatlers vile should all in hastness <end>

But if they dont when will such ones be sent

O tatlers vile what are you all about

You’d better stop and take a differnt rout

You cant the wrath of God all wise escape

If ye were turned into a tiger’s shape

6 But if you wish to tell your tatling tales

O knaves consign them to the prairie gales

And send them where the words do harshly <tread>

Where not an hones[t] word by men is said

But ceace in
Nauvoo
Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....
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fair your lies to tell

And let the saints in peace together dwell

O tatlers vile if you have lies to tell

To hear Them all do not the saints comp<ell>

7 O praise the Lord ye saints of latter days

And up to him in faith your voices raise

But verging to the point we turn again [p. [18]]
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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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