--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Grace Ingles Frost collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 3 published: 1918-01 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Grace Ingles Frost, “Anticipation,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 3 (January 1918): 241." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse 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: improvementera2103unse start_page: 241 end_page: 241 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2103unse publication_year: 1918 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 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Anticipation Anticipation (A New Year's Poem) As when the sun upon his westward course Tarries a moment to smile upon the earth, — The old year takes reluctantly his leave, With backward glance, ere dawns the New Year's birth In arms of morn. And he, the new, e'en as the infant child, Holds hidden promise that but time can show. Shall he whose advent bids man hope anew, More stern of visage and more austere grow? And like his sire paternal, will he pass In war to rest? Unto the old, a calm farewell we voice. Though lessons of the new we yet must scan, We welcome him. All hail! the greeting glad; Mayhap he brings the priceless gifts to man: Peace, brotherhood. Grace Ingles Frost.