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Show 338 Early Western Travels [ VoL » 6 unutterably absurd as that styled Mormonism; a faith which would have disgraced the darkest hour of die daikest era of our race. 1" But it is not for me to read the human heart. ShdbyviUe, IU. XXX " The day is lowering; stilly black Sleeps the grim waste, while heaven's rack, Dispersed and wild, ' tween earth and sky Hangs like a shattered canopy!" " Rent is the fleecy mantle of the iky; The clouds fly different; and the sudden sun By fits effulgent gilds the illumined fields, And black by fits the shadows sweep along." THOMSON. M The bleak winds Do sotely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush." Liar, Ad a. " These are the Gardens of the Desert" B& TANT. MERMLY, merrily did the wild night- wind howl, and whistle, and rave around the little low cabin beneath whose humble roof- tree the traveUer had lain himself to rest Now it would roar and rumble down the huge wooden chimney, and anon sigh along the tall grass- tops and through the crannies like the wail of some lost one of the waste. The moonbeams, at intervals darkened by the drifting clouds and again pouring gloriously forth, streamed in long threads of silver through the shattered walls; while *" For a year after the above was written, the cause of Mormonism seemed to have received a salutary check. It has since revived, and thousands during the past summer have been flocking to their Mount Zion on the outskirts of Missouri. The late Mormon difficulties in Missouri have been made too notorious by the public prints of the day to require notice.- FIAOO. |
