--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Fox, Ruth May collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 9 number: 9 published: 1906-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Ruth May Fox, "I Care Not," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 9 (July 1906): 673.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0909unse 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: improvementera0909unse start_page: 673 end_page: 673 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0909unse 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. --- # I Care Not CARE NOT. (For the Improvement Era.) I care not for friendship which endures not the test; I care not for slander, with my conscience at rest; I gauge not my life by what others may do, But I love, 0 I love, the words that ring true. I care not for smiles, be they ever so bright, Which pass into shadow at the coming of night; I care not for tones, be they gentle as dew, Come they not from the heart—the heart that is true. Opinions may differ, mistakes may be made, Dismal failure on ashes of failure be laid; Keen judgment may err, and miss the right clue, I care not a whit, if the motive be true. But I do love the clasp of a good, honest hand, Be it hardened by toil, or born to command; And those who love me, be they many or few— God bless them, I love them, because they are true. Ruth May Fox. Salt Lake City.