---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Leishman, LeRoy
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 15
number: 6
published: 1912-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Leishman, LeRoy, "The Burst of Light," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 6 (April 1912): 528.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1506unse
  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: improvementera1506unse
start_page: 528
end_page: 528
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1506unse
  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.
---

# The Burst of Light

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The Burst of Light The dawn approaches, and the shadows fade away.
 From dismal depths there bursts a flood of radiant light.
 The sun climbs swiftly upward, and the new-born day Dispels the darkness and the ugly mists of night.

 Thus, from the gloom of ignorance, a truth may spring Its light resplendent lighting up some murky sky!
 And one of us full well a sun might be, to bring The welcome ray of truth that lights and cannot die.
 Le Roy Leishman.
Loc^n, Utah,