--- 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: 6 published: 1907-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Frost, Grace Ingles, "Busy: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 6 (April 1907): 456.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera106unse 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: improvementera106unse start_page: 456 end_page: 456 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera106unse 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. --- # Busy: A Poem 456 IMPRO VEMENT ERA. some of the inscriptions names that have become familiar to all Bible students, such as Tryphsena, Tryphosa, Epaphras and so forth. Paul salutes Tryphsena and Tryphosa when writing to the Romans from Corinth (chap. 16: 12). He mentions Epaphras when writing from Rome to the Colossians (chap. 1:7; chap. 4: 12), and also when writing from the same place to Philemon (verse 23). Mr. Russell-Forbes tells us that such names as Amplias, Tryphsena and Tryphosa are to be found on slabs in another of the columbaria, a mile further back on the Appian way, known as the columbaria of the servants of Livia Augusta, and which was discovered in A.D. 1726. It may be presumed, therefore, that such names were not uncommon among Christians in Rome. The Tryphsena and Try- phosa whom Paul knew must be presumed to have died or else re- moved from Rome before Paul's arrival in that city, because in none of his epistles from there does he make any mention of them whatever. Paris, Prance. [to be continued.] BUSY. (For the Improvement Era.) We are busy, ah ! so busy, That we never think of the friend Who may be in need Of the kindly deed. Too busy are we to lend A hand to make smooth his pathway, Or his burden to make more light; 'Tis hurry away, Without time to stay, E'en a life to make more bright. We are busy, ah ! so busy, Too busy for life to seem sweet. So hurried are we, Our eyes fail to see Riches that lie at our feet. Heedless we trample upon them, In' our worldly greed for gold, And with the throng, Rush madly along, Till our hearts grow small and cold. Grace Ingles Frost. Sal£Lake City, Utah.