--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Wilcox, Ella Wheeler collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 4 number: 10 published: 1901-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Thought, a Road to Happiness: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 4, no. 10 (August 1901): 748.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0410unse 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: improvementera0410unse start_page: 748 end_page: 748 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0410unse 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. --- # Thought, a Road to Happiness: A Poem THOUGHT, A ROAD TO HAPPINESS. No mortal yet has measured his full force. It is a river rising in God's thought And emptying in the soul of man. Go back, Back to the Source, and find divinity. Forget the narrow borders, and ignore The rocks and chasms which obstruct the way. Remember the beginning. Man may be And do the thing he wishes, if he keeps That one thought dominant through night and day And knows his strength is limitless, because Its fountain-head is God. That mighty stream Shall bear upon its breast, like golden fleets, His hopes, his efforts, and his purposes, To anchor in the harbor of Success. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.