---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Curtis, Theo. E.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 5
published: 1909-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Curtis, Theo. E., "Cumorah," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 5 (March 1909): 373.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1205unse
  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: improvementera1205unse
start_page: 373
end_page: 373
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1205unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cumorah

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CUMORAH.
(For the Improvement Era.
One of time's sublimest pages Now you come, a flood of glory
Annal thy prophetic dawn, Streaming o'er your visage old:
Voice of the unstoried ages, With their prehistoric story
Tombstone of their nations gone ! Written on your heart of gold ;
Twice a people's last protection, Teeming with the gospel leaven,
Twice the witness of a world Lifted by an angel hand,
In the arms of insurrection, In the very light of heaven,
To prophetic ruin hurled. To the eyes of every land.
Raman of the ancient nation,
The Cumorah of the last,
From your bosom comes salvation,
And the story of the past!
Theo. E. Curtis.
Salt Lake City, Utah.