--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Thomas, Kate collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 3 published: 1908-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Kate Thomas, "The World: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 3 (January 1908): 201.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1103unse 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: improvementera1103unse start_page: 201 end_page: 201 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1103unse publication_year: 1908 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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The World: A Poem SPIRITUAL GROWTH. 201 harmony with those who are set to watch over us, and when, through life's journey, the ambush of the enemy is approached, the ''still small voice" is heard, sounding a warning, and the danger point may be passed in safety. As the sense of sight has been developed with the red man, so can we, through constant effort, develop a spirituality that will place us in communion with our Maker, so that like the "man of old," we may at last "walk and talk with God." Pleasant Grove, Utah. THE WORLD. {For the Improvement Era.) There is so much in this great world. My soul grows sick with looking at the ways That wind and knot and part to meet again, And part again, and knot and wind and' fade. Children of fashion ; children of the streets : Children of fashion hiding hungry hearts, Children of fashion steeped in sordid thoughts. Children of fashion crying for the light, Children of fashion careless of the dark . Children of gutters starving for kind words, Children of gutters starving for dry bread, Children of gutters hiding hungry hearts, Children of gutters, steeped in sordid thoughts, Children of gutters crying for the light, Children of gutters careless of the dark. 0 God! to see the way this heaving mass Goes by with smiles and tear 3, (and fewer smiles!) Laughing and cursing, (and cursing more!) What can one puny mind do in the whirl? What use one weakling arm to sway the tide? Ho! stand with arms rock-ribbed! There's a wave That washes rock to powder. Set your will In purpose fixed, as is the brain that willed Fixed in the skull. The sea flings wide a corpse And cares not if it rot on putrid sands. Kate Thoma.- New York City, N. Y.