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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To see if further saints still remain

What secrets can in tatlers vile be found

What good can in the Tatlers role abound

Do tatlers vile O friends give good advise

Or are their works to much like that of mise

8 The little mise you know do spoil the <cheese>

But they the human heart do not disease

The mise are not as mean as tatlers low

Because they dont to saints their anger show

Tis true that little mise may spoil the <cheese>

Their work is not like the honey beese

O tatlers vile O quit your base employ

You do the peace of saints so much anoy

9 The upright man may act with friends <and talk>

Or in a pleasant garden sometimes walk

He can O tatlers vile some comfort take

The cords of peace he never tries to break

He is a father to the orphan child

He is a parent good <&> husband mild

He has pure joys O knaves his ways are just

And in God alone puts all his trust

10 But I must to the point O friends revert

A man should tattle none nor be inert

To tatlings low we wish to put a stop

And saints to this base employ must quickly <drop>

(That highes[t] head of tatlers vile may lop)

We want the tatlers vile to hold their peace

We much had rather hear the nois of geese [p. [19]]
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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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