---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Ward, J. H.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 4
number: 7
published: 1901-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'J. H. Ward, "In Memoriam, President George Q. Cannon: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 7 (May 1901): 522.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0407unse
  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: improvementera0407unse
start_page: 522
end_page: 522
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0407unse
  publication_year: 1901
  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 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# In Memoriam, President George Q. Cannon: A Poem

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IN MEMORIAM.

        PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON, DIED APRIL 12, 1901.




            Each voyager, who life's dark sea has braved,
              Suffers a wreck upon the hither shore.
            The voyager, victorious, is saved,
              And safely rests where storms can come no more.

            As sinks the sun at eventide, to rise
                In glorious strength on other haunts of men,
            So sink the just beneath our earthly skies,
                To shine in realms beyond our mortal ken.


            Our lives, imperfect here, are rounded there.
                (By faith alone we grasp the heavenly theme.)
            As we have seen the bridge's arch of stone
                Reflected perfect in the limpid stream.


            Mourn not for him who gained a victor's crown,
                Reflecting glory brighter than the sun.
            His work accomplished, and the cross laid down,
                The Master called him from his work well done.

             We would not mourn, could we but see him there,
                Where all is redolent with life and joy,
            What fragrant flowers bloom in a clime so fair,
                Where death no more their beauty can destroy!
                                                    J.    H. Ward.
      Salt Lake City, April 15, 1901.