
Journal of Discourses 15:181 (September 22, 1872).
Joseph Smith Jr.'s First Vision
Journal of Discourses 12:354 (February 24, 1869).
Joseph Smith Jr.'s First Vision
Journal of Discourses 15:181 (September 22, 1872).
Joseph Smith Jr.'s First Vision
Journal of Discourses 17:279 (September 20, 1874).
Joseph Smith Jr.'s First Vision
Journal of Discourses 7:220 (August 14, 1859).
Joseph Smith Jr.'s First Vision
“Fire he sang,
that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its flames.”
A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)
Context: Fire he sang,
that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its flames.
New buds broke forth from me though it was full summer.
As though his lyre (now I knew its name)
were both frost and fire, its chords flamed
up to the crown of me.
I was seed again.
I was fern in the swamp.
I was coal.
“The lifestyle of the character he had created had consumed him.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 14, Casualties Of War, p. 245