---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - H. R. Merrill
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: 'H. R. Merrill, "The King of the Kodak Brigade," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 6 (April 1915): 528.'
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: 528
end_page: 528
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.
---

# The King of the Kodak Brigade

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'Scenes that we see with the clearness of youth
                      Some day zve'll review with our glasses"

                  The King of the Kodak Brigade

                        I   am the King of the Kodak Brigade;
                            My army is ten million strong;
                       We carry no guns, nor pistols, nor swords,
                            When we go a-marching along;
                        We go with a smile, for the earth is our own
                          And is pleasant as true hearts can make it;
                        And if some bright spot seems worthy to us,
                          There'll be none to oppose when we take it.

                        Most of the soldiers have kodaks all set —
                          A corps in each land can be found;
                        They're dashing young men, and fair, winsome maids-
                          You'll meet them the big world around.
                        Their munitions of war they carry on spools,
       The King           And the brand is N. C. altogether,
                                                     —
                        For those films are sure they never miss fire,
                          In rainy or in sunshiny weather.

Glories of youth with their tinsel and gold
   Evanish with oncoming years,
And the dreams that we dream just dreams may remain,
  In spite of our labor and tears.
I'lllead out my army, some ten million strong,
  And we'll catch the old world as she passes;
And scenes we behold with the clearness of youth,
  Some day we'll review with our glasses.

While we are young we'll imprison the earth,
  Its flowers, its grasses, and dews;
We'll get the old home and the garden and well,
  And the orchard with its many hues;
We'll keep the old folk as we love them today,
  Ere their youth and their roses can fade,
Then we'll laugh at old Time, we'll baffle him quite,
  We are Scouts of the Kodak Brigade!                               'That mischievous
                                     H. R. Merrill                          smile."
ONEIDA ACADEMY, PRESTON,      IDA.