--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Peay, Ida Stewart 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: 'Ida Stewart Peay, "Linger Longer," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 10 (August 1917): 911.' 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: 911 end_page: 911 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. --- # Linger Longer Linger Longer T inser longer Summer day. Linger longer, Life's young day, Fuft bent vme and new mown hay. Heart of youth, with pleasure, gay Seent of clover in the wind- Roaming through the meadows greeu Bios oms fair, where bees may find Laughing lips and eye « jgtam- Honey-dew, a.. 1 birds a-wing Hopes of coming joy and bliss, Praise the world and everything School day fun, and Love * first kiss, In heir song; they trill and coo Setting hearts aglow, afire, Smiling sungand sky of blue: For the highest oaj- Oft it seems as if they say, Ah, if tho canst stay alway, Linger longer, Summer day. Linger ^> ™<^£ Provo, Utah