---
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: 6
published: 1914-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Alfred Lambourne, "Three Moods of Thine. A Poem," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 6 (April 1914): 517.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera176unse
  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: improvementera176unse
start_page: 517
end_page: 517
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera176unse
  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.
---

# Three Moods of Thine. A Poem

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<?Y /) HOW OFT THY COUNSEL/ IN THE PRESENT LIVE
NOR LOSE THE GOLDEN RICHES IN THE! NOW ', "
AND YET ANOTHER THOUGHT THY WORDS OFT GIVE.
LIKE. AUTUMN LEAVES THAT DROP FROM OFF A BOUGH,
THEN PENSIVE ARE THINE EYES A5 TWILIGHT RAYS.'/ /
till like a dawn another mood is told,
thou would5t not have me. live in vanished day5, \ ^/j
BUT SEE THE PROMISE COMING HOURS YET HOLD.
WHEN I DO NOTE THESE CHANGES COME IN THEE,
THAT SOURCE I KNOW FROH WHENCE THY TEACHING SPRINGS',
AND LIKE THY CHANGING THOUGHT OUR LOVE MUST BE ,
AND IN THE INFINITE SHALL SPREAD ITS WINGS -
WITHIN THOSE 'MOODS OF THINE IS SHOWN THE SOUL
THE MYSTIC THREE THAT MAKE ITS PERFECT WHOLE !
7,;i