---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Anonymous
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 3
number: 1
published: 1899-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Anonymous, "Be, Therefore, Loving, a Poem," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 1 (November 1899): 22.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera31unse
  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: improvementera31unse
start_page: 22
end_page: 22
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera31unse
  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.
---

# Be, Therefore, Loving, a Poem

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THEREFORE, LOVING.

                   As from the lofty Wasatch heights,
                     The rock-ribbed rivers flow
                   To cheer, refresh and beautify
                     The thirsty vales below,
                   So, from the heights of human love.

                     Rich founts of kindness well.
                   Which, sprinkled on the thirsting soul,
                     Their own sweet story tell.