---
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: 15
number: 3
published: 1912-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Lambourne, Alfred, "Peace," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 3 (January 1912): 233.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1503unse
  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: improvementera1503unse
start_page: 233
end_page: 233
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1503unse
  publication_year: 1912
  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 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Peace

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Peace and War the power to weigh.

And there, afar beyond the dusky trees,
 Flanked by the silent City of the Dead,
The Manor's front on Arlington's faint height.
 And lo, the dizzy Monument one sees Erect and o'er it dreamy moonlight shed The shaft to Washington, all spirit white