---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Larsen, Louis W.
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: 'Larsen, Louis W., "One Everlasting Grip," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 6 (April 1912): 516.'
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: 516
end_page: 516
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.
---

# One Everlasting Grip

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One Everlasting Grip.
 If you're ever 'bout to do a thing That isn't "on the square,"
 And you try hard to avoid it,
 But give up in deep despair,
 That's the time to score a victory On yourself, right then and there;
 That's the time to prove your mettle,
 Thats' the place to show your "nip,"
 If you'll gather all your forces In one everlasting grip.

 If you're ever swayed by anger,
 And you're 'bout to give it vent In some ill-considered phrases That ere long you will repent,
 But you feel the passion rising,
 And you simply can't relent;
 When you say deep in your bosom,
 "I can't help it —
 let 'er rip,"
 Ere you yield, just test your power In one everlasting grip.

 If some morbid thought comes knocking At the portals of your soul,
 And you're 'bout to let it enter To assume complete control,
 Ere you do It, just consider How to hold that thought at bay,
 How to summon all your manhood And to have your sovereign way;
 Will you try it? Here's the secret You can get it on the hip,
 If you'll gather all your forces In one everlasting grip. Lor is W. Larsen Lewiston, Utah.