--- 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: 19 number: 7 published: 1916-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Alfred Lambourne, "The Same as Then," *Improvement Era* 19, no. 7 (May 1916): 629.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1907unse 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: improvementera1907unse start_page: 629 end_page: 629 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1907unse publication_year: 1916 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 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Same as Then ; —— THE SAME AS THEN. The narrow streamlet swirls adown the glen, To sloping ledges, blue the gentian clings, Its foam all white the mountain water flings, And wild, gray cliffs its voice sends back again. This place is solitude, the same as then A year has passed and love thy image brings, While to my lips a sigh of longing springs, I murmur o'er the words writ by thy pen. That year ago, a letter here I read, And then, as now, this ache was in my heart Upon this same gray stone I laid my head, Since then we met, since then again did part How useless, that I know, to question fate. For that which has been, still for that I wait. ALFRED LAMBOURNE