Poem from William W. Phelps, between 1 and 20 January 1843
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Source Note
, Poem, to JS, , Hancock Co., IL, between 1 and 20 Jan. 1843; in Times and Seasons (Nauvoo, IL), 1 Feb. 1843, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 81–82.
FROM TO JOSEPH SMITH: THE PROPHET.
vade mecum, (translated,) go with me.
Go with me, will you go to the saints that have died,—
To the next, better world, where the righteous reside;
Where the angels and spirits in harmony be
In the joys of a vast paradise? Go with me.
Go with me where the truth and the virtues prevail;
Where the union is one, and the years never fail;
Not a heart can conceive, nor a nat’ral eye see
What the Lord has prepar’d for the just. Go with me.
Go with me where there is no destruction or war;
Neither tyrants, or sland’rers, or nations ajar;
Where the system is perfect, and happiness free, [p. [81]]
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