---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Davis, E. R.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 11
published: 1899-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Davis, E. R., "Daybreak? a Poem," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 11 (September 1899): 866.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera211unse
  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: improvementera211unse
start_page: 866
end_page: 866
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera211unse
  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.
---

# Daybreak? a Poem

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DAYBREAK.

            Daybreak? Not yet; the silver darts of Dawn,
            Yet few and faint, but show it's coming on;
            Full many a shaft, barred in its way
            By Error's mount, delays the coming day.

            Daybreak? Not yet: the brighter shafts of Day
            Through Error's mount have not yet forced their way;
            The greater bolts, shot from the source of light.
            Through mighty weight, are tardy in their flight.

            Daybreak? Not yet. But see! On yonder pile
            The struggling shafts dispersing darkness vile.
            Far off, I see the fair and hallowed light
            Encroaching on the ancient realms of night.
      Logan Utah.                                      E. R. Davis.