--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Merrill, Harrison R. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 15 number: 9 published: 1912-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Harrison R. Merrill, "Spring’s Awakening: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 9 (July 1912): 769.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1509unse 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: improvementera1509unse start_page: 769 end_page: 769 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1509unse 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. --- # Spring’s Awakening: A Poem RESURRECTION AND MARRIAGE FOR ETERNITY 769 spotted from the world, and at his own pleasure and time may those afar off be permitted to gather to the house of the Lord where they may enter and administer not only for their own temporal and eternal union and exaltation, but where they may enter and administer for the salvation and exaltation of their kindred who have died without the knowledge of the gospel. This is my prayer in the name of Jesus. Amen. Spring's Awakening When spring her banners spreads on high, And shakes them glad athwart the sky, In mellow tints of deepest blue And gilded clouds of every hue, The heart leaps up, the eye grows bright, And breaths are drawn with pure delight ; The pulse-beat felt in earth and air Proclaims the stirring spirit there. When spring-time whispers greet the ear, And breezes come from far and near, With perfumes rare of woodland store. And lyrics, whispered o'er and o'er, The soul drinks deep through every sense Prepared for man by Providence To sip the sweets from finite things Which His all wise perfection brings. When spring-time blossoms nod and sway, And robins chirp the hours away, And willow tints are deep and bright As clouds of down in morning's light, — Then love is rife ; 'tis mating time, All creatures feel the touch sublime ; And even from the teeming sod Breaks forth a song of praise to God. Harrison R. Merrill. PRESTON, IDAHO.