| Show PIONEER FATHER Edith Allred Price Utah Non-Professional Third When Tife Honorable seemed wanting Division Mention in his Poetry quest for truth He heard Godword revealed in foreign land He feltburning as had William Blake Before He soughthome in Godchoice land Should he become Or common He learned And each God led Jefferson laborer to till he was was the faith the soil an equal needed way The Man was But another in the filled His sacred barren with impelled in Godroad fears him to sight work was for endure long 1ife in and kin spite Of tragedy hardship illness and pain He braved the siege of snakes and WalkerWars The warning of the drums and Indian spears In darkest But for hours this Unmourned God loyal sent kind friend on Manti Sowiette The rocky Man had died countryside This rugged soul assiagned to Sanpete home Now sleeps beneath the grass but still 1ives We are the offspring To us he left The truth for Godwhich of his destiny word--his he fought GREEN It was growing Unsown Unwatered save there by human by Honorable green rain and guiding Tight lives in our hearts MANNA Non-Professional Fourth Division Mention verdant hand or on morning 37 dew Poetry in desert waste |
