---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Fox, Ruth May
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 8
published: 1909-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Ruth May Fox, "A Song—Early in the Morning," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 8 (June 1909): 643.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1208unse
  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: improvementera1208unse
start_page: 643
end_page: 643
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1208unse
  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.
---

# A Song—Early in the Morning

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:                                                          !

                                    SELF-CONTROL.                                        643

self, and acts for         himself.          In throwing the individual thus back
upon himself it is not shutting his eyes to the stimulus and light
and new life that come with the warm pressure of the hand, the
kindly word, and the sincere expression of true friendship.   But
true    friendship        is   rare;   its    great   value   is in    a crisis   —   like   a
lifeboat.  Many a boasted friend has proved a leaking, worthless
"lifeboat" when the storm of adversity might make him useful.
In these great crises of life, man is strong only as he is strong
from within, and the more he depends on himself the stronger
will he become, and the more able will he be to help others in the

hour of their need.              His very life will be a constant help and a
strength to others, as he becomes to them a living lesson of the
dignity of self-reliance.

                     A SONG— EARLY IN THE MORNING
                           (Dedicated to Hamilton G. Park.)

       When Aurora glints the mountains, in the resurrection day,
         While the dew is on the lilies where the fragrant breezes play;
       When the angel sounds his trumpet for the dead in Christ to rise,
            may I behold the glory of his coming through the skies

       Chorus:      Early in the morning of the resurrection day,
                    When the dew is on the lilies and the fragrant breezes play.

       In the joyous, sacred dawning of the resurrection day,
         May I find my loved ones waiting to pursue our upward way
       Through the flaming, golden splendor as we answer to His call:
         Come, ye faithful, I will crown you— I, your King and Lord of all.
       Chorus

       When his presence fills the temple, in the resurrection day,
         May I meet the seer beloved with the saints in white array;
       May our voices intermingle in that glad seraphic strain-
                                                                      reign.
         Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Christ has come to earth to

       Chorus:
                                                                           Ruth May Fox.
 Salt Lake City, Utah.