---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Moore, D.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 8
published: 1899-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Moore, D., "The Morning Star: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 8 (June 1899): 605.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28unse
  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: improvementera28unse
start_page: 605
end_page: 605
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera28unse
  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.
---

# The Morning Star: A Poem

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                    A WORD WITH YOUNG MEN.                                605

travel to get where they are today.          Think of your condition as
it is today. The chances for you to get and make homes now
why there is no comparison to what they were when we were in
the States. There is no possible chance for you to have to pass
through the severe, rugged and trying scenes that many of your
parents have had to pass through to get to this place and make
Utah what it is today-         Then be brave, and strike out        in that
which is manifestly your duty to do.
     The first thing we have any account of our Father commanding Adam was to multiply and replenish and subdue the earth, and
take dominion.       And that same saying is just as applicable now to
all good Latter-day Saints in this new part of the world as it was
when it was first given to Father Adam. I really do wish that it
could be sensed and acted upon more generally.         We should
live by every word of the Lord and every principle of truth

that   is   given to us.

                           THE MORNING STAR.

                 Day's fair and solitary handmaid! bright
                 Thou lingerest long within the silent sky;
                 When all thy sparkling kin have left thy sight,
                 And wandered to the palaces on high:
                 Thou seem'st like herald sent upon his flight.
                 To bid the morning lift his heavy eye.
                 And give one farewell to departing night.
                 Life wakes within the world, and from his sleep.
                 The sun salutes the waters; on the shore
                 The little sportive billows rise and leap,
                 As if to kiss the sea-birds flying o'er—
                 Their whitening bosoms sighing 'neath the steep.
                 Nature now leaves her flowery bed in mirth,
                 And, hand in hand with Light, walks laughing o'er the earth.
                                                              D. Moore.