---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Ursenbach, O. F.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 13
number: 5
published: 1910-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Ursenbach, O. F., "Live for Love," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 5 (March 1910): 417.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  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: improvementera135unse
start_page: 417
end_page: 417
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse
  publication_year: 1910
  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 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Live for Love


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THE CARLYLES AND THEIR HOUSE AT CHELSEA.                                    417

series of "irruptions"        had occurred in fitting up this room as Car-
lyle's   study, the garret he had occupied being found too cold for his
declining years.        A book-case, fitted into an alcove, was made
after Carlyle's instructions, containing         now various       copies of his
own works.          It was in this   room that his last literary labors were
accomplished        in the    Reminiscences, with a neice to act as secre-
tary.     After that "writing had become impossible."

London, England.
[to be concluded in   next number. 1

Live For Love.

(For the Improvement Era.)
There are more kind words than ever spoken,
And more good deeds that could be done.
Some simple act or sweet, kind token,
Would cheer the heart of some sad one.
There's many a flower that could be given,
To buoy some heart in its mortal race;
But how oft we wait 'till the soul's in heaven,
And the body is cold in death's embrace.
Many a soul in despair has wasted
For want of friendship's helping hand;
And broken hearts to the dregs are tested,
Dying for love throughout our land.
Many the youth whose life of sin
Speaks the atmosphere of a faulty home.
No hearthstone love to his great within,
He seeks the great wide world to roam.
Then why not live for those who love us,
With noble deeds, kind words for all.
It   would make earth as heaven above us
And save mankind from downward fall.
Let's give our flowers to those who're living,
And strew them freely on the road.
Such kindly acts are worth the giving,
To help mankind with life's great load.
0. F.   Ursenbach.