---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Alfred Lambourne
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: 'Alfred Lambourne, "Easter," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 6 (April 1915): 471–472.'
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: 471
end_page: 472
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.
---

# Easter

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                                                  EASTER.

                 Full on the morn doth rise the Easter-hymn          ;

                        Glad words of praise this time auspicious hail
                 Of that event beyond the years grown dim.
                        Sweet living voices sing the wondrous tale.

                 The world's great miracle anew they tell,
                        In joyous accents, pure and silver clear

                 The tidings marvelous exultant swell,          .

                        With words of promise fill the listening ear.

                 Hark! how the thoughts inspiring buoyant rise,
                       As unto tribes and peoples countless sung;
                 The message known to all beneath the skies,
                        In ancient speech or fresh-created tongue.

                 That story brought us from the days of old,
                        From happy lips now falls in measured sound;
                 That wonder unto listening nations told,
                        From land to land wherever man is found.

                  Forget this day all bitterness and sin,
                        Let pain and discord in sweet sounds expire      ;

                 The words of Gentleness make all akin,
                        And man and nature are one mighty choir!
                                                    ALFRED LAMBOURNE.

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