--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Evan Stephens 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: "Evan Stephens, “The Farmer Boy,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 3 (January 1918): 250–252." 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: 250 end_page: 252 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. --- # The Farmer Boy The Farmer Boy Boldly. fe F* Evan Stephens d. d ^=q: -■l i 1. I sing of the lad that tills the soil, With the tan up- 2. I sing of the lad that works the farm With its wealth of 3. I sing of the lad who feeds the world With the gifts his 4. I sing of the lad with hoe and plow And the loads of @te SCttf -*— 4: ±==t Q,b fls — =- i 1 1 r — r 1 tstr »•€ — »•* — — — 1 — * -ft — -y^-e) r — ar — 1 ^ • my — pp on his gold-en Fa-ther grain and 1 — J — — •=*'-al- — 5 — -•- ^ — mi -*- face, With his grain, Who can lends, Who with seeds, With the • m 4 m- 0 stur - dy limbs, Grown by face his task, Un-dis- work up - hold - ing his hon - est sweat shining BIV n -_ • mm m V IV PJ«, 17 ■ M » l " IV *-/b i i " \ ' ' u ^ - v L_ - i ]/ y hon-est toil — Counting la - bor no dis may'd by harm, In the sunshine or the flag unfurled, Doth a - far his por - tion on his brow, As the wait-ing world he vm ■i J -4- grace, Counting rain, In the send, Doth a- feeds, As the -zh -0-- la - bor no dis - grace. sunshine or the rain. far his portion send. wait-ing world he feeds. 9 9 Ah Who con To a There are yes I sing of the -fid - ing plants, trusting starving world in a he - roes man - y EB q=r I -0--0- -I a- -V—V- -0— ±E -Xr—t m tJ m -0- -p5--#- 9 \j 9, M w H farm - er boy, And the all to God, For the dead - ly strife; Calling in the strife To whom joys har out fame that bless his - vest he shall for his time-ly and praise be life, reap. aid: long, £*=^ -*v— :q=ri:=#__ *— 0- 1- -ft— -K- -0— i± He has health and wealth free of such al - loy, As the And who loves each blade that a - dorns the sod He is Aye the farm - er lad gives his toil and life All for But the farm-er lad with his toil - ing life, Wins the — hr -*— m S~r rit. cit - y's noise and proud to guard and freedom, un - a - homage of my M=± -0-0- strife, As the cit - y's noise and strife, keep, He is proud to guard and keep. fraid, All for freedom un - a - fraid. song, Wins the homage of my song. Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, New York