THE CENTER OF THE HEAVENS.
Up
on the heavens above,
Where the life giving power is spread,
Undivided,
There is a fountain of love,
Where the priesthood in virtue, as head
Hath presided,
Over planets and stars, and their beings, forever.
High in those mansions so bright,
Where the footsteps of men never tread,
In probation,
There is a foundation of light,
Where true wisdom and knowledge is spread,
In rotation,
To the millions of worlds and their people, forever
Right in the centre of this,
Is a throne, where our Father sits crown’d
With his neighbors,
Here is the spirit of bliss,
Which the wisdom of man never found
By his labors,
Even light which is life to creations, forever. (W. W. Phelps, Deseret
Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord, 1851 [Salt Lake City: W. Richards, 1851]:
[3], emphasis added)