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 stamp and harshly too the tatlers lies

Let us awake O friends and all obey

And walk in peace along the narrow way

4 A prophet true may well be termd the <Eyes>

What man O friends would not in hast[e] arise

If his ow[n] eyes in danger were of harm

I think this thing would much the legs <alarm>

And body too all would in motion be

They all would hast[e] while eyes they had <to see>

We have O friend a seer true or eyes

And if upheld he will no doubt advise

5 Who are the ones who steal the <bags of corn>

Such rascals mean and knaves I now do <warn>

Although it is digressing from the point

Perhaps Ill bring the ends and make a Joint

O knaves and rascals mean to you I speak

You are not fit to live where houses leak

What help to hold the hands of prophets <true>

Can we expect O scoundrals mean from <you>

6 I do not know as Ive digress to[o] far

To give the rascals mean and knaves a Jar

They are perhaps a band of tatlers too

Who seek not to find naught but vile work <to do>

O knaves if you are in The tatling band [p. [14]]
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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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