My Great-Great-Great Grandfather, John Ash - Writes A Poem

John Ash is my Great-Great-Great Grandfather.  He crossed the plains with a handcart company and settled in Cache Valley.  I wanted to focus on a poem I found that I believe is in his own hand - written (I believe) to his daughter, my Great-Great Grandmother, Ellen Matilda Ash Nelson.  His words of counsel and advise are as pertinent today as they were when he wrote them (sadly, I don't have a date for this poem).