---
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: 17
number: 5
published: 1914-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Alfred Lambourne, \"Through Dreamland's Gates. A Poem,\" *Improvement Era* 17, no. 5 (March 1914): 439."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1705unse
  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: improvementera1705unse
start_page: 439
end_page: 439
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1705unse
  publication_year: 1914
  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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Through Dreamland's Gates. A Poem

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lis pdhs 6nd foiwts 5J\d pates fluis view
Tk© fidds ejd pleaseavces ii\ rapture cl^d
Aid yeiik/ words, O Love, are Yc^uaojid ^6d,
As iKo 63nid IK© roses icod Hiqj/qv [3jQW ;>
IKy words brought p]QQ,su ra.jreitei pleasure
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IV love from outty pa^fera brooteo-atas!
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Tte wkera I Vdlk it wifer^ flower did <J>rass,
hsteed cf JirQDBibjd, feet makes my Ho;
*^*.^ lid I os lovad cf lovors. ikose Gbies pasa ?
'C-^Cv- 7% WiikMsweei tekife, end to my soufc strife!
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