---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Malta
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: 'Malta, "What Part Is Thine?: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 7 (May 1901): 512.'
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: 512
end_page: 512
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.
---

# What Part Is Thine?: A Poem

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WHAT PART IS THINE?
                           (written for the era.)

              My friend, what part is thine in life's great choir,-
              Alto or base, tenor or treble sweet?
              Whate'er thy part, watch well the score, and see
              No chord be missed, no note unfit be sung.
              Ofttimes thy duty is to watch and wait;
              Then, at appointed time, to raise thy voice
              And swell the growing anthem of God's praise,
              In melody and harmony divine.

              Solos there are, duets and trios too;
              And sometimes every voice and piece is heard
              In volume that shall drown all meaner sounds,
              And rise to Heaven as one great wave of praise.
              Sing well thy part, in time and tune exact;
              And trouble not that others fail in theirs;
              Soon they shall join with thee, or silent be,
              For harmony doth conquer discord's din.
                                                      Malta.