--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lambourne, Alfred collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 21 number: 11 published: 1918-09 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Lambourne, Alfred, "To Camille Desmoulins," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 11 (September 1918): 982–983.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse 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: improvementera21011unse start_page: 982 end_page: 983 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera21011unse 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. --- # To Camille Desmoulins TO CAMILLE DESMOULINS 1 Hark! Once again we seem to hear thy words, | And of their magic, ages yet shall tell. | Then was a ruthless system dashed to sherds, | As that grim pile, the hated Bastile, fell. | From thy wild speech came Liberty to France, | First gleam of dawn to end the Feudal night; | We hear the red-capp'd, wooden-shoed ones dance, § 1 The maddened cries that hailed the coming light. 1 Thy words still echo on from tongue to tongue, | France leaps to arms to meet tyrannic foes, | Across the world a battle line is flung, | The heart of patriots with courage glows: 1 We see thy ghost, dead hero, in the van, "The Declaration of the Rights of Man!" | Alfred Lambowme 1 THE BASTILE jiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii i ii m minim I iiimiiiiiiiiii i iniiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii i mmiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiih- 1 — ; : Lt 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 M 1 1 , M 1 1 1 ; I ! i 1 1 , ! i,i:i IIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIII III! nil ill ii I ill ill ii nun I II tun -