--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Hodapp, Minnie Iverson collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 10 published: 1917-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Minnie Iverson Hodapp, "The Dawn," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 10 (August 1917): 859.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse 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: improvementera20010unse start_page: 859 end_page: 859 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse 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. --- # The Dawn Dawn Ye skies of dawn! Ye skies of dawn! What royal grace thy pride hath on! The curtains of the night withdrawn, Awake, rejoice! The dawn! the dawn! 0 glorious purple hills of dawn! What scenes Hope's magic wand hath drawn! The shadows and the night are gone — 0 glowing, happy hills of dawn! Ye little birds! Ye birds of dawn, (The sameness of the shade withdrawn) Sing out a chorus on the lawn! Ye cherry-throated birds of dawn! Ye fields of dawn! bright fields of dawn! What scenes thy glory smiles upon! Where fears be scattered frail and wan, Ye rosy, gleaming hills of dawn! But 0, ye skies! Ye skies of dawn! What royal grace thy pride hath on! The curtain of the night withdrawn, Awake! Rejoice! The dawn, the dawn! Minnie Iverson Hodapp