---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - O. F. Ursenbach
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 6
published: 1915-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'O. F. Ursenbach, "An Easter Sonnet," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 6 (April 1915): 540.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1806unse
  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: improvementera1806unse
start_page: 540
end_page: 540
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1806unse
  publication_year: 1915
  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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# An Easter Sonnet

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