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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9 But how can Evil speaking pass away

While men neglect their honest debts to pay

I know that I in This am some in fault

But do not think that this will me Exalt

I have desird long time my debts to pay

And some I’ve paid in cutting prairie hay

But I expect that I will soon be clear

I wish the time was fifty times as near

10 What shall we do there is a gathering storm

Low tatling now must cease and remits reform

And if we wish the misteries from above

We must in holy concert learn to move

We must in order due all things arrange

And men must give the labouring man <his change>

We must the great commands of God obey

And not forget when due our debts to pay

11 Where is The man who am in Spirit pray

When he receives insults from day to day

Who is insulted more than Joseph Smith

All knaves and rascals mean should feel <the mith>

The hick’ry with Amen should be polite

And poets and the truth should ever write

And men should try and never disapoint

That Things may be in and not out of joint

12 We always ought to do as well as say

And spend our time in work and not in <play>

An upright man desires the truth to know

That he in knowledge true may daily grow [p. [5]]
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Poem from “Mr. Fare Play,” circa Late 1842
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