Especially Brigham Young, who came in for his fortune and fixtures.
In 1850 they established the Salt Lake City,
And two years later another great “revelation” set up spiritual wifehood, the glorious cause that Smith died for.
Thus, like a beautiful tree, grew up the doctrine of spiritual marriage,
Monogamy, bigamy, trigamy, quadrigamy, quinquigamy, and lastly polygamy—
Till, if you ask me, “How many wives has Brigham?”
I shall answer, “Go, count the waves of the boundless Atlantic!”
They made Smith a saint—a boss saint—and was he not worthy?
Far more than the worn-out Saints of your rotten Eurôpian Kingdoms!
Bully for Joseph! my eyes fill with tears; don’t yours?