Heart of Mine: A Poem

26 IMPROVEMENT ERA. While the cloud in the distance yet muttered and thundered, And blotted the sky with its hideous form, I stood on the deck and I marveled and wondered That we were relieved from that terrible 6torm.

When, over the waters in a jubilant chorus, Our praises rang out. o'er the watery realm, For lo we beheld in the dawning before us, !

Our God and our Captain who wrought at the helm.

The crags and the breakers caught up the glad chorus, And rolled it in musical echo along, The skies, and the winds, and the billows that bore us, Caught up the refrain of that glorious song. T. E. Curtis. Salt Lake City, Utah.

HEART OF MINE.

{For the Improvement Era.)

Heart of mine, why art thou fearful? Why so many doubts and tears? Deeply drink of hope's bright nectar, And grieve not for vanished years.

He who clothes the fragrant lilies, Heeds each tiny sparrow fall, Never, never will forsake thee, If thou wilt unto him call.

Heart of mine, be strong, enduring, Walk the way without complaint, Strive not to escape life's burdens, Bear them bravely, grow not faint.

Every victory will make thee Greater than the one before; Then press onward, upward ever, Trust in God and doubt no more. Grace Ingleb Frost. Salt Lake City, Utah.