---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Stephens, Evan
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 20
number: 2
published: 1916-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Evan Stephens, "Dear Land of the Valleys and Mountains," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 2 (December 1916): 154–155.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2002unse
  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: improvementera2002unse
start_page: 154
end_page: 155
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2002unse
  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.
---

# Dear Land of the Valleys and Mountains

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1 F —— — S DEAR LAND OF THE VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS 155 C —m mi —a a • * — -^ d ~ 1 a-#-p —2 St — sun and the moon in their beauty, Look - ing down from a ev - er may concord and un - ion, Our de - vo - tion and ^tff-|r Zon^f pause. -J-Vi mj 3 Nh > w r *=£ 3= — — — #— =f=^«=:-3 —— : P3 2 F <g _ -3 F » *t —•— i—* a 1 A -rr clear sky a - bove, See true hearts de - vot'- ed to loy - al - ty prove. And give us the sweet - est comdu - ty To God and each oth - er, in love, mun - ion With God and each oth - er, in love. Note. —This tender little melody was sung into my heart when I was a small boy, by Ben and Agnes Williams and Shadrach Jones (all then of Willard). The song as then sung by them was entitled, "The Lone, Starry Hour." have long wished to perpetuate it, and in the hope of doing so I more effectively have set "homelove" words to it, and arranged it for our boys to sing. I regret that I have failed to find it in print, hence cannot find the name of the author of the melody. Evan Stephens.