17 [Poem by first wife Vilate Kimball] Winter Quarters Jan 17th 1847
No being round the spacious Earth
Beneath the vaulted arch of heaven
Divides my love, or draws it thence
from him to whom my heart is given
Like the frail ivy to the oak
Draun closer by the temptest [d]riven
Through sorrows flood he'll bear me up
And light with smiles my way to heaven
The gift was on the alter laid
The Plighted vow, on earth was given
The seal eternal has ben made
And by his Side, I'll reign in heaven
Lines writen by Vilate Kimball
to her companion Heber C. Kimball
[Source: Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball]
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