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, [
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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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4 You’d better be engaged in cutting wood

Let this by tatlers vile be understood

Than be engaged in telling tatling tales

It is a base employ The wintry gales

Do harshly tread the prairies large and <wide>

And like the tatlers tongue are never tied

O when will tongues of slander ceace to <run>

And Their base work on Earth be wholy done

5 The red hot fire is good to keep us warm

And houses fair to shelter from The storm

But tatling lying tales are of no use

Because they never can good fruits produce

A vise is good to hold what man requires

But tongues of slander friendship often tears

The vices good me[n] often find to be of use

But slandering tongues pour out their vile abuse

6 Perhaps you think I am a poet rude

But can I on the tatler vile intrude

If I can make him leave his vile employ

I will O friends he may your peace anoy

I love to see O friends the bounding deer

When he twelve feet or more Each bound <will clear>

But growling snarling men who loves to see

Or ever in their presence loves to be

7 Men ought to act like men upright & just

And lying knaves they never ought to trust

Those who do aim at cheating neighbours <kind>

Who are just men upright and ever kind [p. [10]]
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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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