---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Fox, Ruth M.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 11
number: 1
published: 1907-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Ruth M. Fox, "Autumn: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 1 (November 1907): 26.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1101unse
  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: improvementera1101unse
start_page: 26
end_page: 26
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1101unse
  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.
---

# Autumn: A Poem

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26 IMPROVEMENT ERA.
native land yet, and I, her son, feel as if you, my friends,
were part of my kin. My heart goes out towards this great
nation,where the gospel has found so many noble men and women,
and where I feel there are many yet who are looking for more of
the truth than they can find in the conflicting creeds of the
day." He spoke to them briefly of the restoration of the gospel
by angel visits to the Prophet Joseph Smith, and then closed by
bearing his testimony. The rain was falling faster now, and at
the close of Elder Donaldson's brief prayer of dismissal the people
hurriedly dispersed.
There was no chance to give out any literature in such weath-
er, so the men walked homeward in the rain, which now came
pelting down. For a while Elder Dean was so unconscious of it
that he failed to raise his umbrella.
"Elder Dean," said his companion, "it seems to me that you
are not only wet over, but wet through. Put up your umbrella."
"It was glorious," replied the other, as he did what he was
told. "And. dear brother, I (vant to keep not only wet overall
the time, but wet through and through."
(to be continued.)
Salt Lake City, Utah.
AUTUMN.
{For the Improvement Era.)
Vibrates the air with a singular thrill
Fairies and brownies ar^ roaming at will
Purling and winding, the rills run below;
Above, the sun sheds an ambient glow
O'er mountain and valley, cascade and stream;
Dallies sweet nature as if in a dream.
'Twixt summer and winter, she scarcely knows how
To adorn her proud form or garland her brow.
Lo she has chosen her robe is of brown,
! ;
With festoons of crimson and thistle-down.
Golden her crown, while emeralds are seen
—
Peeping forth from her tresses beautiful queen
Breathless we gaze; e'en the trees at her call
Tremble and flutter, and let their leaves fall
To weave her a rug of exquisite design,
To spread from the sea to the odorous pine,
Where sometimes she sits over-looking the land,
And beats back the storms with her magical wand.
Salt Lake City, Utah. Ruth M. Fox.