---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Unknown
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 16
number: 11
published: 1913-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Unknown, "Now Pale the Distant Sun," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 11 (September 1913): 1059.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera16011unse
  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: improvementera16011unse
start_page: 1059
end_page: 1059
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera16011unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Now Pale the Distant Sun

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Now pale the distant sun's low beams are shed, The streamlet silent in its channel glides, The water butter-cup all chilly rides,

And thick the clouds come, sad and gray as lead,

And weep their burdens o'er the mountain's head. The spotted frog in some dark prison hides, The songsters' notes now cease their rival tides —

Now is the beauty of the summer dead.

O saddened is the path my own thought takes — To live again Love's Golden Dream I crave —

No tears have I to fall, as yonder rain,

Yet, still the Mistress in my heart is pain; To nature, Ah! my soul it s answer makes,

As wan the summer passes to its grave.

ALFRED LAMBOURNE.