---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hunt, Leigh
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 6
published: 1899-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Hunt, Leigh, "Spring: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 6 (April 1899): 424.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera26unse
  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: improvementera26unse
start_page: 424
end_page: 424
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera26unse
  publication_year: 1899
  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 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Spring: A Poem

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424                      IMPROVEMENT ERA.

informed, that it must be done with an eye single to the glory of
God;    if this consideration did   not wholly characterize      all   his proceedings in relation to it, the adversary of truth would overcome
him,    or at   least   prevent his making that proficiency in this
glorious work which he otherwise would.
       While describing the place where the record was deposited,
he gave a minute relation of it, and the vision of his mind beingopened at the same time, he was permitted to view it critically; and
previously being acquainted with the place, he was able to follow
the direction of the vision, afterward, according to the voice of
the angel, and obtain the book.
       I close for   the present by subscribing myself as ever, your
brother in Christ.

                                SPRING.

           Spring! of hope, and love and youth, and gladdness.
           Wind- winged emblem! brightest, best, and fairest!
        Whence comest thou, when, with dark winter's sadness.
           The tears that fade in sunny smiles thou sharest?
        Sister of joy, thou art the child who wearest
          Thy mother's dying smile, tender and sweet;
        Thy mother Atumn, for whose grave thou bearest
          Fresh flowers, and beams like flowers, with gentle feet.
           Disturbing not the leaves which are her winding sheet.
                                                        Leigh Hunt.