---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Frost, Grace Ingles
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: 'Grace Ingles Frost, "When Ends the Reign of Thor? A Poem," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 862.'
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: 862
end_page: 862
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.
---

# When Ends the Reign of Thor? A Poem

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When Ends the Reign of Thor?

                   When ends the reign of Thor,
                    Deity of demon war?
           Not till the cup of Meribah be drained,
           E'en to the dregs of its last bitter drop,
                   Will aught e'er stay
           The crimson flood whose hellish maelstrom-whirl
           Would fain sweep from the earth, the race away.

                   When ends the reign of Thor,
                   Deity of demon war?
           When in the mind of man no longer lives
           The greed for gain, a lust for mundane pow'r,
                   (The genius of strife)
           Xo more will belch the curse of cannon forth,
           Nor clash of sabers crossed be longer rife.

                   Then ends the reign of Thor,
                   Deity of demon war!
           For aye, will be their swords to plowshares turned,
           And Peace, upon the dais of the world,
                   Weld close and strong
           The bands of universal brotherhood,
           And Right prevail where long hath triumphed Wrong.

                   So will end the reign of Thor,
                   Deity of demon war,
                   Whom, as in days of yore,
                   Nations bend knee before.
                                                  Grace Ingles Frost