---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 1
published: 1914-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Late Summer", *Improvement Era* 18, no. 1 (November 1914), unpaginated front matter.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1801unse
  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: improvementera1801unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1801unse
  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.
---

# Late Summer

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               LATE SUMMER
The suns of August scorch the yellow grain,
  And pale the hills are wrapped in whitened hare
Like islands float the groves above the plain
  From skies unclouded comes the lambent blaze
The roads are blinding in the floods of light
  The suns are followed with the burning moons
Each day but dies to bring as rich a night,
  And at the dawnings, night in languor swoons.
                                 Alfred Lambourne.

THE RURAL PEACE
See article, "The Country Cross-Roads," by Alfred Lambourne.