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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3. Perhaps you’ll cast this book beneath the <-[bench]->

Or use it as a man would use a wrench

To hold the tongues of tattling men and vile

Whose bosoms are fill’d up with lowest guile

I have not much O friend my thought comprest

To do God’s will I came out to the west

Dont talk to me This word we understand

It bears within our shop its true command

Book 1

1 All brothers should in love together <dwell>

And tatling lying tales should never tell

To you O saints these lines I now adress

And I will not my anxious thought compr<ess>

The subject low of tatling been is my theme

Which matter the prophets hold in no esteem

The modern prophets who in Truth delight

A[n]d do the truth receive in visions bright [p. [2]]
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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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2196
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26
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