The Vigorous Dawn

VIGOROUS DAWN. {For the Improvement Era.) Strength of manhood and cheer of morn, Never a look or thought forlorn, Off through the daylight newly bom Its waking charms to see. Off to the work in the bracing dawn. Memory of sorrow and failure gone— In to the task, with brain and brawn, A will to do and be. The sky is clear, and the rising sun Promises many a victory won; Then up, and on, till the day is done. While imps of languor flee! Up, "and away from the wasted past, -• Yesterday's dead and laid to rest— Onward, to grapple the very best In fortune's treasury. Power, and reason, and life, for naught? The shades of night, no treasure sought? The day made dark, no battle fought? Never such day for me! Worn bv action, and not by rust. To seek through a door in the turfen crust, A merited rest in the genial dust, From toil and tumult free! qrayson, Utah. Albert R. Lyman.