--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Alder, Lydia D. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 9 number: 8 published: 1906-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Lydia D. Alder, "Brigham Young," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 8 (June 1906): 639.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0908unse 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: improvementera0908unse start_page: 639 end_page: 639 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0908unse publication_year: 1906 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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Brigham Young BRIGHAM YOUNG. {For the Improvement Era.) Here on the hill he sleeps, Close to the city's din, on whom did fall The pow'r of Zion's founder, Joseph the Seer. Though in the tomb, doth Brigham still hold court; They come from ev'ry land, and rev'rence pay To him whose works the Lord hath magnified. The early morn sees many standing by His resting place, and evening's setting sun Shines o'er them ling'ring there, who homage pay To his great name: not great because of wealth, Or earth's renown, but great because the Lord Hath made him great, his faithful servant been. God raiseth up or casteth down at will; He recompenseth every one his due. Yet, 0, the mockery of it all, to see Men bow before him dead, they scorned in life! And yet, 'tis history o'er again, and true: "Away with him!" whom now all men adore. Who could have known, when only red men trod This vale, that they who came,—the lonely, sick, Obscure, cast out from ev'ry land, should, ere The century's close, so honored be to earth's Remotest bounds, and that by titled ones; And, towering high among them, Brigham Young? 0 answer ye, the prophets, who foresaw This time, and said, "the mountain of the Lord's House shall be in the mountain tops, and all The nations shall flow unto it." Sounds Now the mountain's solemn voice, "the Lord Hath spoken, hear ye all the earth! as he Hath done, so will he yet perform all things According to his word." Whom he honors The world shall honor,—decree eternal— And foremost 'mong them, till the trump shall sound. Will be the name and fame of Brigham Young. Salt Lake City, Utah. Lydia D. Alder.