Cyrus Edwin Dallin's Prophetic Busts

“The boy came home enraptured, he had beheld his first statue. The next day he spent with the clay in the field. Missing him, I asked ‘Where is Bird? ‘Making things with mud,’ was the reply. In the evening he brought me two busts in clay. I put them upon the window sill. As it happened Father Dibble came in and recognized one of the busts as Joseph and the other as Hyrum. At this he broke into a prophecy concerning Cyrus—that he would become a great sculptor. He was to make figures or busts of Joseph and Hyrum for the Temple and other things he predicted as well. — The Young Woman's Journal 21:9”