--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Austin, Alfred collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 8 number: 4 published: 1905-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alfred Austin, "Jeanne d’Arc," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 4 (February 1905): 275.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse 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: improvementera0804unse start_page: 275 end_page: 275 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse publication_year: 1905 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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Jeanne d’Arc JEANNE D'ARC. EY ALFRED AUSTIN, POET LAUREATE OP ENGLAND. Goddess of battles, with the maiden sword And blameless banner, when to France availed Not all her gallant manhood, helmed and mailed To drive from off her soil the alien horde That over pasture, hamlet, vineyard poured. You with your unarmed innocency scaled The walls of war, and, where man's might had failed. Crowning, enthroned the Anointed of the Lord. And should France yet again be called to scare The stranger from her gates, and hurl back thence Feet that would violate her frontiers fair. Not meretricious sycophant of sense. But the pure heart and patriotic prayer, Once more would prove her rescue and defense. AsLford, Kent, England. —From the Independent.