---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Mitton, Sarah E.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 11
number: 2
published: 1907-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Sarah E. Mitton, "The Place Where Mother Dwells: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 2 (December 1907): 124.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1102unse
  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: improvementera1102unse
start_page: 124
end_page: 124
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1102unse
  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.
---

# The Place Where Mother Dwells: A Poem

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THE PLACE WHERE MOTHER DWELLS-
It may be a time-worn cottage,
Star.ding back among the trees;
And its window sills may rattle,
In the searching autumn breeze;
Or it may be more a mansion,
Built of marble, firm and grand;
And its beauties may be many,
Stretching out on every hand;
But whate'er be its construction,
In our hearts deep feeling swell?,
When we single out the home nest,
Saying: ''There's the place where Mother dwells."
Sarah. F. Mitton. ,
Paradise, Utah.