---
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: 6
published: 1917-04
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Evan Stephens, "Beloved: Chorus for Senior Boys," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 6 (April 1917): 546.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  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: improvementera2006unse
start_page: 546
end_page: 546
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-04)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2006unse
  publication_year: 1917
  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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Beloved: Chorus for Senior Boys

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                                     BELOVED                                       547

                                      fear,     Thou art mine, Be-lov-ed.
       poco   rit.                    guide,     Still   my own       be-lov-ed.
      ff cres.             a tern,    throne     Of my heart        — Be-lov-ed.
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      Then my bouI cries without fear,Thou art mine,                 Be lov - ed.
      My un - dy-ing mate and guide.Still my own                      be-lov - ed.
      Thou who reignest on the throne Of m> heart
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                                                                     Be-lov - ed

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    Note. The speed of the different lines in this song should constantly
vary with the moods or the varying intensity of the emotions: First line,
smoothly, and not too fast; second, more vigorously and a little hurried;
the third, like the first. Then the intensity should increase much in the
fourth line, crowding the speed; sing the fifth line vigorously; the sixth line
so intensely that the speed slackens much in order to emphasize every
syllable; and the last line should keep up the climax undiminished, though
a little more strict to time; and the final word "beloved," given broadly,
and with meaning. Note the metronome speed mark. E. S.

                            A Tardy Season

          Sweet, dilatory Spring, why lingerest thou?
          This wintry scene is but a prospect weird
          O'ersoon hath robin timidly appeared,
            While silent hills retain their blanched brow;
            The sparrow ventures wary from the eves,
          And all the buoyant faith of willow twig
          Scarce shoots the flush of sap. To fig
            Our vernal sense, the incipient prelude leaves.

          Too early all thy harbingers, O Spring;
          Late let thy cheery becks the blossoms bring;
            For 'tis the groundhog begs his snowy dues.
            The ghostly smile upon his icy lips
          Deceives our yearning for the sight of slips
                                —
            Of pussywillow first of glandsome news'
                                               G. G. Meldrum.