CRY OF THE RTYRS.
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Hark the sound oil many voices minglng
Their feeble cries like the groans OF myrisds
OF expiring insects ascends she skies
In solemn music While the wide expanse
OF Heavens courts reechoes with the sound
In strains tho mourn'u sad, and solemn are
Powerful and mighty, and dienifed,
And grand, and sublime: and hll all heaven,
As the sound OF many waters srns
The voice oil great thunder; rending the
Skies, startling the angels and penetrating
The hearts Of the Gods thrilling every nerve
And kindling the flame Of jus ice in each
Holy bosom And whose voices are thessi


They are the voices OF ancient martyrs,
Who slain for the witness Of Jesus
And Tor the word Of their testimony
Yes -ctucied, beheaded, sawn s.under,
Burned torn by wild beasts betrayed shot,
Hun,, boiled. roasted, imprisoned, starved, and
Tortured III ten thous and paBelcss ways


And who, cruel, so hard in heart,
As 10 sifict these blessed msftyrs thus
Psrchsnce some demon rom the courts OF Hell,
IN human form aIrayed. alone performed II!
Or II by human cid 1t mnst have been
Some low degr adea beathen- csnnibal,
Trained from his youth 10 feed on human flesh
or tell me, where such wretches could be found!
Alas, blush TO own he truth ard yet
Nj self man. These wcre thsis y AyiSo FRIENDS;
Their fathers mothtTs, bfoihers SISTERS, IONS,
And urghbors Ab too Of, their fellow christisns,
In nome, but not In spirit Yes, pious
Priests, and pray ing ifends 100 olt betrayed them
Bat how could these In conscience kill such mtu,
AMI all f1r thor religion ami their faith
Al, ih,s, (themselvss the judge they never cid.



Cried and thus destroy ed th.m In holy zeal for God
And vainly thoughtto do him service


But hsrs THAT piercing cry still tingles IN
My ears, aud fills my very hear with gdei
What their words that burn, with might ord DOW s
TO pam both heaven and earth and all that hear


Chow long, o Lord holy and true, dost thou
Not judge and ayenge our blood ON them that
Dwell on the earth 2"


Are these the awful words And what reply
u gwen by ihs svenging heavens


Be P,rigrr-O ye martyFed souls and wait
Till your fellow zervants who are 10 be
Killed III like manner shall be fulfilled.


WAir-till Mssouri's plains are soaked IN bloc
OF innocence and the souls Of Latter Day saints
&inK taoir cries with yours for vengeance
rbs eartn Wait, till the piaios o. LIMOS,
And the walls Of ca,thage, are soaked with
The blood OF msttyrci prophets, whose cries
Ascend TO heaven Tor vengt tance mob.


Wait tin the last vestgc OF civil aud
Religious Liberty shall expire IN
The bosom OF boBstiug nation, whose
Rulers mock the cries OF justice,
And laugh at the prayers Of the oppressed.
Wait iili then but wait no longer-Ysu have
Tho answer.