---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Walker, C. L.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 12
published: 1899-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Walker, C. L., "Midnight Musings, a Poem," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 12 (October 1899): 933.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera212unse
  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: improvementera212unse
start_page: 933
end_page: 933
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera212unse
  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.
---

# Midnight Musings, a Poem

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MIDNIGHT MUSINGS.

               Those wond'rous flames, those orbs of light,
               Roll in their orbits by God's might,
               Their cycles, times, years, months, and days,
               Bespeak his majesty and praise.

               A deep beyond poor mortal ken,
               Unfathom'd by earth's wisest men,
               Who vainly try to penetrate
               God's works, sublimely grand and great.

               Supremely, infinitely grand!
               They move in paths marked by his hand,
               And roll in awful majesty
               Through limitless eternity.

               And man, assuming, fain would trace
               Their origin, their times and place,
               In vain to find their destiny
               He gazes on immensity.

               'Tis God,   who made the earth, and seas,
               The flowers, and grass, the stately trees
               He placed the mountains on the plains,
               And wets the verdant vales with rains.

               And in his image, God made man
               Gave him his life, a short, brief span;
               To serve Him faithfully all his days,
               And glorify his God in praise.
                                                      C. L.   Walker.
    St. George, Utah.