---
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: 2
published: 1914-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Aliens", *Improvement Era* 18, no. 2 (December 1914), unpaginated front matter.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1802unse
  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: improvementera1802unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1802unse
  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.
---

# Aliens

ALIENS
O ye who walk where no shadow falls
  To darken the sun-kissed day,
Can ye sense the need when a brother calls,
  Who perishes by the way?
O ye whose protected feet ne'er tripped
  On the cruel jutting stone,
Can ye agonize for those who've slipped,
  As they traveled their path alone?

O ye who have never felt the fangs
  Of a gnawing hunger's want,
Are ye in haste to appease the pangs
  Of the specter wan and gaunt?

O ye who have never known the dart
  Of the archer grim and hoar,
Can ye comfort bring to the wounded heart
  'Yond the close-shut, wreath-draped door?

O ye who walk where no shadow falls
 To darken the sun-kissed days,
Ye are fenced about by golden walls,
  Ye know naught of other ways.
                                  Grace Ingles Frost

EPHRAIM K. HANKS, A NOTED SCOUT OF EARLY DAYS IN UTAH
    Born Madison, Lake County, Ohio, Mar. 21, 1826; died Blue Valley
Ward, Wayne Co., Utah, June 9, 1896.
    See' article, "A King of Western Scouts," by Solomon Kimball.