Sonnet on the Book of Mormon

While looking at Keepapitchin, another LDS Blog, I came across this poem about the book of Mormon that interested me. It describes the book in an almost mystic sense, mentioning ancient ruins and forgotten civilizations of Old. I hope you enjoy this poem as much as I have and check out Keepapitchinin while you are at it.

Sonnet on the Book of Mormon

By Clinton F. Larson

(This future noted Mormon poet was in 1940 a
missionary serving in the New England Mission)

The ruins murmur on unceasingly
To testify there was another day …
This western hemisphere has known a glory
That we know little of, except to say:
‘I felt their grandeur in the backward look …’
They had a scripture from Omnipotence:
So from the dust, from them to us, the book
Came down, spanning timeless decadence
To tell us of the nations and the forms
That have gone down beneath consuming time;
What temporal monument, against the storms,
Can hold steadfastly in artistic rhyme?
But Mayan ruins speak in scriptural flow
With far more eloquence than forms can know.

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