---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Haddock, Lon J.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 6
published: 1909-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Haddock, Lon J., "The Song of Spring," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 6 (April 1909): 455.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  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: improvementera1206unse
start_page: 455
end_page: 455
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1206unse
  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.
---

# The Song of Spring

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THE SONG OF SPRING.
{For the Improvement Era.)
Come out, come out, /or the spring is here!
Come out, with a shout, where the sky is clear,
For the earth is bright, in the warm sunlight,
And the air seems to ring
With the song of spring.
Come out, come out, for the spring is here !
Come out, look about, for the winter drear
Has now passed away, and all nature is gay
With the tokens that bring
The spring, gentle spring.
Come out, come out, for the spring is here!
Away with all doubt, disappointment and fear,
For a kind Father's love sends new hope from above,
Till our hearts fairly sing,
With the song of spring.
Lon J. Haddock.
Salt Lake City, Utah.