--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lyman, Albert R. 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: 'Albert R. Lyman, "The Vigorous Dawn," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 8 (June 1906): 626.' 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: 626 end_page: 626 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. --- # 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.