Saint Abe and His Seven Wives / A Tale of Salt Lake City, with a Bibliographical Note

by Robert Williams Buchanan

That's how we founded the saintly nation,

All by the spade and the arm of man,

And the aid of a special dispensation.

"Work" was the word when we begun,

"Work" is the word now we have plenty.

FEMININE WHISPERS.

Heard about Sister Euphemia's son?..

Sealing already, though only twenty!

THE PROPHET.

I say just now what I used to say,