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Lyrics: 2-16 Love Duet
(Everyone leaves but Nancy and Forbes.)
NANCY
Stay with me a moment, Stephen.
FORBES
All right.
NANCY (Affectionately)
I was mistaken.
FORBES
How so?
NANCY
When you spoke to the Governor,
It was as if I know you for the first time.

FORBES
The Twelve are assembled in Nauvoo;
Our future is in their hands.
NANCY
Strong hands.
FORBES
Brother Brigham has changed.
NANCY
He has.
FORBES
I have changed since he came from Boston.
NANCY
I too, I too.
Let me take your arm.
FORBES
I have become Brigham's man.
NANCY
I too.
FORBES
When he spoke of Joseph I saw
A scimitar of cities against the mountains
Where we must go. And somehow in him
I saw Joseph again, the arm of Joseph
That will bring us there:
A scimitar of cities against the blue rnountains,
And a great city where the temple of the six spires
Awakens the dawn of our people:
I saw the diadem of temples in the cities from that time:
At the point of the scimitar gleams
The great temple of the city of angels,
Along the curve the temple of white stone in the crimson hills,
The temple of the green valleys,
The meadows and lakes of Canaan, Lehi, and Jordan,
To the valley of the great city beside the sea of the mountains;
The temple of Joseph is there and golden Moroni
In the flame of morning bursting from the eastern peaks;
The singing morning is there and blue-clear night
When the valley glows and the air is warm
As the smile of Joseph.
Come west, Nancy, our home is west.
NANCY
Yes, Stephen.
FORBES
For that, we could leave Nauvoo;
For the cities, we could walk a hundred years
Beside the wagon wheel;
BOTH
We could forget the old lands behind us
For the hundred years of prophecy in Brigham Young.
NANCY
How can we strive
Beyond the outposts of the cities,
Leaving all we have known?
Even now, we have gone from hearth to tent
To the coverlet of stars for what can be.
Even Nauvoo is a station, and we walk to and fro,
Whispering for the love of the land that is not ours,
That yet will be ours.
I look to you, unfulfilled except in the promise
Of loving you as if the evening star
Were the point of a wand that delivers us
Beyond the dying image of pain:
Though we should be alone in the western land,
We are the covenant of our being forever.
We stand here as we are, as we always shall
Beyond Nauvoo and after death.
Stephen, you are the reach of my love as my hand is in yours;
FORBES
I take your hand in mine.
NANCY
As I look at you, the voice is about us,
That if we are one, as now, the shields
Of eternity will keep us one.
BOTH
What we know in ourselves cleaves time,
And now is forever broken in two.
NANCY
Wherever we live, we shall joy in our love;
How may I keep each image of you?
Each one comes from the succulent spring and the water of air,
Rushing in, immensely strong, and each upon each
Full as the rain of light.
I was held in the gust of glory, held and spun,
Until, in the kingdom,
I found you, whom I could know
Over the headlands of my being.
BOTH
I keep you close
As we keep our love,
Our imperial love,
Our eternal love,
In the sleep of the sun.
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