---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Bertha A. Kleinman
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: "Bertha A. Kleinman, “Each Little Hour,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 3 (January 1918): 243."
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: 243
end_page: 243
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.
---

# Each Little Hour

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Each Little Hour

I would not know the measure of today,

Lest blind recusant I

Should seek to wile some potent hour away

That test would sanctify.

I would not list the monochord of fate,

Her votive seer to be,

Lest I should cringe from duty consummate,

And chortle to be free.

Of alchemy, to probe, erewhile the end.

I seek no whit of power —

Suffice within my microcosm's trend

To live each little hour.

BertJw A. Kleinman.

Mesa, Ariz.