--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Max Eastman collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 5 published: 1918-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Max Eastman, “Coming Spring,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 5 (March 1918): 403." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse 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: improvementera2105unse start_page: 403 end_page: 403 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse 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. --- # Coming Spring Coming Spring (Selected) Ice is marching down the river, gaily out to sea! Sunbeams o'er the snow-hills quiver, setting torrents free! Yellow are the water-willows, yellow clouds are they, Rising where the laden billows swell along their way! Arrows of the sun are flying! winter flees the light, And his chilly horn is sighing all the moisty night! Lovers of the balmy weather, lovers of the sun! Drifts and duty melt together — get your labors done! Ice is marching down the river, gaily out to sea! Sing the healthy-hearted ever, spring is liberty! Max Eastman