--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Anderson, Edward H. - Edwards, L. D. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 12 published: 1908-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Anderson, Edward H.; Edwards, L. D., "Home of Our Youth: A Poem with Music," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 12 (October 1908): 976–978.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse 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: improvementera11012unse start_page: 976 end_page: 978 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera11012unse 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. --- # Home of Our Youth: A Poem with Music 976 IMPROVEMENT. ERA. be glad to do anything in its power to aid them with books, Eras, manuals, or in any other way . HOME OF OUR YOUTH. Words by Edward H. Anderson. Music by L. D. Edwards. - — 4-a|r-«— F— al *-• "^ 1 9±*—\ Mt» It^ — -I m\~. aP 1. Though the stars beam as bright that shine o'er us, Though the 2. Though we gaze at the natives of is lands That are 3. There we wander o'er hillside and valley, Scanning £l£. brooks sing as sweet where we roam, (we roam) Tho' all bathed by the sea's silver foam, (silver foam) Pluck the pages of nature's grand tome, (grand tome) Learning l "N -P- ^w-^-n — i-H t-«l 1 — F ■y— # y U L_ ~* m naturelies smil-ing a fruits of the fair trees that lessons that linger for round bios us, Yet we Bom 'Round the er With the •4- -*- ^ — p — p-— £ — ^ — v — v — F «v 4 -0T- £ :U2t ±=± £^ :^t cannot help thinking of home. Fill'd with joy. tho' we doors of their tropical home; Or we revel in mem'ries of childhood and home. Soon the hour shall ap- -I — I — P-— F P »t— » — r — f2^ — i — *f£ — <0-P— I P — »■ P S^ 45^ gEg t= F— MUTUAL WORK. 977 I I l paze at the sunset splendors of Europe, pear of our parting, Painting Or we On our golden the dwell as the life's thorny -9— old spires of Rome, Yet we king 'neath his dome: Yet the pathway to roam! Then at long to see sunset much feelings of contrast belength to meet Savior and ^ -0 •va-l-r 1 1 ' » P- »— I fl: -0 m Kr Nr I \-m 1- J— -»-•- »-. -P — -v— F*t w1-*-— 5— ^•1 \j Zj H dear got loved er Cap the snow bedeck'd mountains of home. ten Make us long for the loved scenes of home. ones Where the good have a beautiful home. fes? J2^-i f±t ttt J — I — I'. l^-b1- »: • . — p*a — ,, ^— v— \—&- — II Dear home of our youth, homeof our youth, how we ^ ■. S * N ^ F-, \ — n-h" ki/ b u r home of our youth, -y— *— £ 978 IMPROVEMENT ERA. love, we love thee, How we love with light footsteps to ■3 zz^±±zrr^-- — — : — ^t * N f> r — * -dr -