More Poetry from Mary Ann Morton

Having just discovered that the Millennial Star is scanned and online, I went hunting to see if there were any more poems by Mary Ann Morton.

Just found one, in Volume 10, No. 9, May 1, 1848:

Answer to Zion

by Miss Mary Ann Morton

Gladly, dear sister, would we leave

The shores of Babel, and receive

The call that is addressed

With cheerful sympathy resign

The ties that round our feelings twine,

And journey to the West.

We do believe the mission sent

To call the nations to repent,

That were by sin oppress'd.

They may obey the Saviour's voice,

Obtain remission, and rejoice

With thousands in the West.

The dangers of the deep we'd brave,

Depending on His power to save,

Who is for ever blest.

Yes onward, Sister, would we go,

Columbia is the land we know,

Our home is in the West!

Flamstead, Hertfordshire.

She apparently used her maiden name as a pen-name after marriage, as shown with this example published in Volume 12, No. 7, April 1, 1850:

A Prayer

My Father in heaven, and kindred there,

How long shall my spirit exist,

In these regions of sorrow, this world of dispair [sic],

Where men in rebellion persist.

Yet, let me not murmur, nor scorn the design,

Of thy purpose intended in me;

Thou has sent me a spirit eternally thine,

To inhabit a body for thee.

And when thro' thine help, I have finished the course,

Thy love has appointed for me;

That spirit again will return to its source,

And with Gods through eternity be.

Thou, author of life! thou art truth, thou art love,

Thou art first, thou art last, unto me;

Oh thou! who art worshipped by angels above,

Send the spirit of truth unto me.

Luton. M. Morton

And this appeared in Volume 14, No. 37, November 6, 1852:

TIIE GOSPEL RESTORED

by M. Morton

How lost were our days till we met with the Gospel,

The creeds and the systems seemed powerless and vain;

We ne'er received precepts so suited to save us,

As taught by the Priesthood restored again.

In the wisdom of men we had long been entangled,

And forms, without power, encircled us round;

But now we rejoice in the hope of redemption,

And peace, to the faithful, doth ever abound.

Repentance, most needful, of faith the production,

Prepares for the laver our sins to remit,

And the Spirit that's given for future instruction,

Is received in the manner Jehovah saw fit--

By the Laying on hands of Apostles and Prophets,

Who, from Him have received of its influence pure;

While the gifts of the Spirit by many are witnessed,

Displaying the Gospel in fulness and power.

May the blessings now sent ever keep us from tossings

Of Anti-Christ winds, even doctrines of men;

And aid our perceptions to see the vain glossings

That gild error's systems. Amen, and Amen.