---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hodapp, Minnie Iverson
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 11
published: 1919-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Hodapp, Minnie Iverson, "A Memory," *Improvement Era* 22, no. 11 (September 1919): 987–988.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22011unse
  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: improvementera22011unse
start_page: 987
end_page: 988
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera22011unse
  publication_year: 1919
  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 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Memory

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A Memory No songster of the blooming grove In floating cadence clear and free Can e'er this heart to rapture move Like one fond, cherished melody!

 So pure no fate can change nor mar, Or hide its inner charm from me, Br ; s:ht waves of joy that float afar, This heaven-guarded memorv! Minnie Iverson Hoaapp

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