---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Snow, E. R.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 14
number: 6
published: 1911-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'E. R. Snow, "I’ll Serve the Lord While I Am Young," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 6 (April 1911): 525.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1406unse
  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: improvementera1406unse
start_page: 525
end_page: 525
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1406unse
  publication_year: 1911
  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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# I’ll Serve the Lord While I Am Young

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I'll Serve the Lord While I am Young. Words by E. R. Snow. Music by R. Michelsen. I'll serve the Lord while I am young, And, in my ear - ly O Lord, my parents here pre-serve, To teach me righteous- While youth and beauty sweetly twine Their garlands round my w st -4- 3 7d 1 ■Z3* "=1 ^ i -t -f-h e^ days, ness, head, i — -v- De - vote the mu-sic of my tongue That my young feet may never swerve I'll seek at wisdom's sacred shrine To From The ^^ SP£==Ef my Redeemer's praise, paths of ho - li - ness; gems that nev-er fade. ^liii^l V-t/ I'll praise his name that he has And, like the faithful ones of Long may I sing thy praises