--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lambourne, Alfred collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 18 number: 10 published: 1915-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alfred Lambourne, "As Suns of August Burn: A Poem," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 851.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse 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: improvementera18010unse start_page: 851 end_page: 851 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse 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. --- # As Suns of August Burn: A Poem AS SUNS OF AUGUST BURN The suns of August scorch the yellow grain, And pale, the hills are wrapped in whiten'd haze 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 dawning night in languor swoons. The far earth-rim that with the haze is cross'd, This glowing landscape that is lying near, One seems my life within the vanish' d past, The other as the fervid moments here : My soul to feast unto this present turns, And love within my heart as August burns ! ALFRED LAMBOURNE.