---
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: 8
published: 1916-06
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Alfred Lambourne, "Life Perfect," *Improvement Era* 19, no. 8 (June 1916): 695.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1908unse
  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: improvementera1908unse
start_page: 695
end_page: 695
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1908unse
  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.
---

# Life Perfect

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LIFE PERFECT

Were there a heart to beat in tune with mine
That melody with peace my life would fill;
Should to my lips be placed love's sacred wine,

Then not my blood the world's negledt might chill.
Ah, could that love but answer my love's plea,
Then hope should be no longer as a ghost;
Were there one faith to share one faith in me,
Then fate itself not o'er my will should boast.
Were there a soul to meet my soul's true kiss,
To make two souls one soul in endless trust,
Then   I   would triumph, though the world might hiss,

Change to a crown of gold a crown of dust:
  Then     I   could smile into the face of death,

  And speak life perfecl with my latest breath!
                                ALFRED LAMBOURNE