--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Frost, Grace Ingles collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 10 number: 1 published: 1906-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Heart of Mine: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 1 (November 1906): 26.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera101unse 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: improvementera101unse start_page: 26 end_page: 26 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera101unse 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. --- # 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.