--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lambourne, Alfred collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 14 number: 7 published: 1911-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alfred Lambourne, "Springtime on the Wasatch," *Improvement Era* 14, no. 7 (May 1911): 567–568.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1407unse 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: improvementera1407unse start_page: 567 end_page: 568 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1407unse 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. --- # Springtime on the Wasatch SPRINGTIME ON THE WASATCH. "How beauteous upon yonder eastern mountains will be the Season's prime! What wonders there will be, what great star-dashes, what circles, what wavering belts of brilliant flowers! There will be all the bewildering variety of the Alpine flora. The yet unmelted snows, in their downward course, will lave what unseen gardens! Not a glade, not a glen, but shall know its tens of thousands. Upon those heights will come forth the flowers of myth and legend. There will grow strange western bloom, and there the wild flowers that for endless generations have been dear to the old-world heart and brain. Cooled by the crystal rills, warmed by the generous sun, the mountains will break into floral joy! Upon those heights will grow flowers the descendants of others that bloomed upon the selfsame spots, century beyond century of the past, and unseen by human eyes! ihere will be troops of forget-me-nots, ivesias, blue-bells, columbines! By the well-heads of the streams will be the shootingstar, and millions of butter-cups will carpet the uneven ground."—From The Inland Sea, by Alfred Lambonme. /•■\rv>- ycjjvc ALFRED LAMBOURNE, Author of Plet—A Christmas Poem; Our Inland Sea —The Story of a Homestead; and The Cross— Holly and Easter Lilies. From a sketch by Mahonri M. Young.