--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Princess Amelia collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 1 number: 5 published: 1898-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Princess Amelia, "Verses," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 5 (March 1898): 309.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera15unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera15unse start_page: 309 end_page: 309 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera15unse publication_year: 1898 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1898, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Verses VERSES. [These lines are said to have been zuritten by Princess Amelia, daughter of George III'\ Unthinking, idle, wild and young 1 laugh'd and talk'd and danced and sung; And proud of health, of freedom vain, Dream'd not of sorrow, care or pain; Concluding in these hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. But when the days of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame. When folly's gay pursuits were o'er. And I could dance and sing no more. It then occurred how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for me.