---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - T. E. Curtis
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 9
published: 1904-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'T. E. Curtis, "Sunlight," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 9 (July 1904): 688.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse
  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: improvementera0709unse
start_page: 688
end_page: 688
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0709unse
  publication_year: 1904
  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 1904, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Sunlight

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—

               SUNLIGHT.
        {For    the   Improvement Era.)

BY T. E. CURTIS, SALT LAKE CITY.

I stood        at yonder mountain crest
    Above the dark and solemn vale.
That rolled out to the distant west
    All restless in the fitful gale.
I   heard the hostile skies applaud
    The storm-king, on his evil way,
Who spread his mighty wings abroad,
    And held the flaming sun at bay.

Then flow'r-like, as I raised my view,
    I   saw the       sullen clouds divide;
A golden flood came bursting through.
  And fell across the mountain side!
And spread a picture on the plain
    A symbol of the rival powers
That operate the world, and fain
     Would change these mortal lives of ours.

The clouds rolled backward one by one.
  And the emerging scene was dressed
In all the glory of the sun.
  From flow'ry vale to snowy crest.
And so it is from surf to crown;
     We see the clouds of error furled.
Letting the light of heaven down,
     Spreading its glory o'er the world!