---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Alfred Lambourne
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: "Alfred Lambourne, “Jerusalem,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 3 (January 1918): 255."
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: 255
end_page: 255
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.
---

# Jerusalem

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| JERUSALEM |

j DEC. 9, 1917

| "A white flag announced the surrender of the Holy City"

| High o'er Jerusalem a flag of white

Displaced the Moslem's crescent and the star; |

I Once more for Christ the gift of Britain's might, |

The Holy City, prey of endless war.

| From those far days when David was its king

Its stones have echoed to the trumpet calls;

| The passing years but came new foes to bring,

And countless hosts have battered at its walls. |

| There the Assyrian sword did bloody work;

The cruel Persians through its gateway swept; |

I The Greek and Roman, Arab and the Turk;

j The rule of Babylon its daughters wept.

I Thou who didst suffer there upon the tree,

I Still for Thy reign of Love our Hope shall be!

I ALFRED LAMBOURNE j

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