---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Lon J. Haddock
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 10
published: 1914-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Lon J. Haddock, "The Sometime and the Now," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 10 (August 1914): 937.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17010unse
  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: improvementera17010unse
start_page: 937
end_page: 937
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17010unse
  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.
---

# The Sometime and the Now

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THE BIBLE                             937

"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me

beside the still waters.

"He restoreth my soul, he leadeth me in the path of righteous-

ness for his name's sake.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they

comfort me.

"Thou preparest.a table before me in the presence of mine ene-

mies; thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

.  "Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my

life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever."

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

The Sometime and the Now

They talk of the glories of Sometime;

Of the marvelous wonders we'll see

When we pass to our rest,

In that land of the blest

Where from sorrow we'll ever be free.

Of the wide-swelling song of the angels,

The harps and the crowns of pure gold;

And the pleasures that wait,

Inside the bright gate,

Where mortals shall never grow old.

But give me the glories about me!

The wonders I see every day:

The birds and the bees,

The plants and the trees,

And the streamlets that laugh on their way;

The breezes that blow from the mountains,

The myriad forms in the grass,

And the sunshine of love,

Falling free from above,

On the flowers that nod as I pass.

The heart-happy laughter of children,

As they frolic and dance at their play,

And the sweet-smiling bloom,

With its fragrant perfume,

Where the bobolink sings o'er the way;

The bright smilinar faces about me,

God's common folks that I love most,

With their doubts and their fears,

Their smiles, and their tears,

Making up earth's diversified host.

These I know! for I measure their feelings

By the sum of my own human heart;

And love with its tender revealings

Speaks of these of which I am a part.

So let others desire for the future,

There's that in my nature, somehow,

That shuts out the prospect of Sometime

In the glorious vision of Now!

Lon J. Haddock