---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Lewis, Lou
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 8
number: 12
published: 1905-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Lou Lewis, "Farewell to Summer: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 12 (October 1905): 917–918.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0812unse
  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: improvementera0812unse
start_page: 917
end_page: 918
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0812unse
  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.
---

# Farewell to Summer: A Poem

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                          FAREWELL TO SUMMER.
                            (For the Improvement Era.)




  Farewell   —
            farewell to you, Summer       —
                                      and dreams!
    We've walked where the pools of the marshes lie darkling,
  Or sat on the cushions that bordered the streams,
    To watch where the sands with bright sunlight were sparkling.

  For days we have carolled, but now must be working,
    With hearts that are true and hearts that are brave;
  No longer must we our duty be shirking,
    Or lost shall we be in the drifting wave.

  Sing to us, Summer, when Winter comes creeping,
    With cold clammy garments, the wilderness through,
  And if we in sorrow shall some day be weeping,
    0, echo the anthem* we warbled to you.
                                                     Lou Lewis.
    Salt   Lake   City,   Utah.

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