---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Frost, Grace Ingles
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 7
number: 12
published: 1904-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Light After Darkness: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 7, no. 12 (October 1904): 944.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0712unse
  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: improvementera0712unse
start_page: 944
end_page: 944
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1904-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0712unse
  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.
---

# Light After Darkness: A Poem

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—

     LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS.

BY GRACE INGLES FROST, SALT LAKE CITY.

                          "Follow the Star!
   And it shall lead to no one less than God,
   And it shall lead to God, though God. he far.

    The night was dark and stormy,
        The moon gave forth no light,
    My feet were torn and bleeding
      From boulders in my flight.
    I   cried aloud in anguish
    "Oh Father! God of love!
        Hide not thy count'nance from me,
    Support me by thy mighty arm,
        And keep me close to thee!"

    In agony, I laid me
        Down on the path to die;
    For darker and more threatening
        Had grown the midnight sky.
     When lo! from out the darkness
        A star appeared above,
     A star of brightest lustre,
       An emblem of God's love.

        arose,and once more struggled
         Along life's thorny way,
     My tear-dimmed eyes fixed stead'ly
         Upon that star's bright ray;
     Then all my tears and suff'ring,
       Forgotten were by me;
     For while I gazed in rapture
         The night had ceased to be.