---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 2
published: 1898-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Verse from the Arabic", *Improvement Era* 2, no. 2 (December 1898): 107.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22unse
  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: improvementera22unse
start_page: 107
end_page: 107
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1898-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22unse
  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.
---

# Verse from the Arabic

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FROM THE ARABIC.

            The morn that usher'd thee to life, my child.
            Saw thee in tears, whilst all around thee smiled.
            When summon'd hence to thy eternal sleep.
            Oh, may'st thou smile, whilst all around thee weep.