---
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: 11
number: 1
published: 1907-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "Echo of the Ages: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 1 (November 1907): 51.'
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: 51
end_page: 51
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.
---

# Echo of the Ages: A Poem

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ECHO OF THE AGES.
An echo rolls down through the ages,
In cadence divinely sweet,
And unto the soul that shall hearken,
'Twill be as a light to the feet.
For heartstrings that vibrate with anguish.
It bringeth a healing balm;
With power rebuketh life's tempest,
And giveth a heavenly calm.
Oh! blest be the echo of ages,
That leadeth mankind above,
Purging his thought of world-grossness,
Ever inspiring with love!
But ah! of earth's millions how many
Are striving this echo to hear?
Their ears have grown deaf to its pleadings,
They hold it no longer dear.
They hear but one dissonant clamor,
The shout of the world's great fold;
The echo which blesses the ages,
Is drowned in the cry for gold.
Grace Ingles Frost.
Salt Lake City, Utah.