--- 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: 22 number: 1 published: 1918-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Lambourne, Alfred, "Our Flag," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 1 (November 1918): 1–2.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2201unse 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: improvementera2201unse start_page: 1 end_page: 2 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2201unse 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. --- # Our Flag OUR FLAG UPON THE ALPS Where touches on Mont Blanc the coming light, First place of Europe in the sunrise glow, Amid the gleaming wastes of ice and snow, There floats our Freedom's banner on the height. A strange and splendid, unexpected sight, High o'er the alpine glacier's ebb and flow, Where falls the avalanche, the bleak winds blow, Tells to the Old World of the New World's might. Yea, honored banner, rich with clustered stars. Wave brightly, then, o'er Chamonix's deep vale. The Golden Hopes of our Republic tell, Make hearts of Europe with fresh courage swell. Thee, in this hour of struggle, proud we hail, O flag, stainless in thy wars ALIKE!) LAM BOURNE. © Underwood & Underwood, New York