--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Greenwood, Annie Pike 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: 'Greenwood, Annie Pike, "Just Work: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 6 (April 1907): 462.' 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: 462 end_page: 462 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. --- # Just Work: A Poem 462 IMPROVEMENT ERA. to co-operate with the representatives of the labor element in their demands. The situation in Russia from the standpoint of liberal government, religious freedom, and redress, is one now inviting the attention of the whole civilized world. Salt Lake City, Utah. JUST WORK. (For the Improvement Era ) When things are looking black as sin, And trouble seems your nearest kin, And you grow sick of strife and din, Don't shirk; Just work ; For you follow this small light, Then everything must come out right. When purse and clothing both grow thin, Just rub this lamp of Aladdin: Take any spade, but dig right in ; Don't shirk; Just work; For if you follow this small light, Then everything must come out right. When you grow sad with ' 'might have been, ' ' There's just one way that you can win, And that's with vim again begin; — Don't shirk; Just work; For if you follow this small light, Then everything must come out right. Annie Pike Greenwood. Garden City, Kansas.