--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Montgomery, James collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 3 number: 7 published: 1900-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'James Montgomery, "Aspirations of Youth: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 3, no. 7 (May 1900): 509.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera37unse 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: improvementera37unse start_page: 509 end_page: 509 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera37unse publication_year: 1900 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 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Aspirations of Youth: A Poem ^ MOHAMMED AND THE SARACENS. 509 conclude that the external triumph of a religion among ignorant and wicked people, is not so much owing to the purity and lofti- ness of its truths, as to its harmony with prevailing errors and corruptions. ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH. Higher, higher, will we climb, up the mount of glory, That our names may live through time, in our country's story; Happy, when her welfare calls. He who conquers, he who falls! Deeper, deeper, let us toil in the mines of knowledge. Nature's wealth and learning's spoil, win from school and college; Delve we there for richer gems Than the stars of diadems. Onward, onward, will we press, through the path of duty; Virtue is true happiness, excellence true heauty. Minds are of supernal birth. Let us make a heaven of earth. Closer, closer, then we knit hearts and hands together, Where our fireside comforts sit, in the wildest weather; Oh, they wander wide who roam. For the joys of life from home. Nearer, dearer hands of love draw our souls in union, To our Father's house above, to the Saints' communion; Thither ever hope ascend. There may all our labors end. — James Montgomery.