---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 3
number: 2
published: 1899-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Procrastination," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 2 (December 1899): 125.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32unse
  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: improvementera32unse
start_page: 125
end_page: 125
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera32unse
  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.
---

# Procrastination

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PROCRASTINATION.

                 "Procrastination is the thief of time;
                 Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
                 And to the mercies of a moment leaves
                 The vast concerns of an eternal state.
                 At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
                 Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan,
                 At fifty, chides his infamous delay;
                 Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;
                 In all the magnanimity of thought,
                 Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.'