---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Alder, Lydia D.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 5
published: 1907-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Alder, Lydia D., "Springtime: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 5 (March 1907): 339.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1005unse
  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: improvementera1005unse
start_page: 339
end_page: 339
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1005unse
  publication_year: 1907
  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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Springtime: A Poem

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EARLY-DAY RECOLLECTIONS OF ANTELOPE ISLAND. 339
on some of these long runs. It was a test that tried the mettle
of every horse in the band, the horses that came out in the lead
on a fifteen or twenty mile run could be depended upon as animals
that were almost priceless for saddle animals, over a rough and
mountainous country. That day the price of island horses rose
fifty per cent, and the man who could afford to own one of these
beautiful animals was considered lucky.
On the morning of the fourth day, President Young and party
returned home, and those who composed the company declared
without hesitation that they had had "the time of their lives,
"
and would always look back to this excursion to Antelope Island
with the greatest of pleasure.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
[to be concluded in next number.]

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SPRINGTIME.
(For the Imvrovement Era. 1
The blossoms fragrant springing,
Down in the leafy dell,
The whisp'ring winds of springtime.
How sweet the tale they tell
!
With joy we hail their coming,
O'erspreading hill and plain,
With wildest flowers the sweetest,
Hid in the mossy lane.
King Winter's reign is over.
The biting ^frinds have flown.
All nature wakes to gladness,
Sings in melodious tone.
Wfirm breezes kiss tie violets.
Where once the snows lay deep;
Full is the world of sunshine
That wakes the flowers from sleep.
Lydia D. Alder.
Salt Lake City, Utah.