---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hurst, A. R.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 23
number: 1
published: 1919-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Hurst, A. R., "Consolation," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 1 (November 1919): 58.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2301unse
  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: improvementera2301unse
start_page: 58
end_page: 58
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2301unse
  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.
---

# Consolation

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Consolation

 When I'm tired of the toil and the tumult, And my heart's full of sorrow and pain, And I wish for my hardening sadness Some safe consolation to gain,

 Then I leave the crowds for the calmness Where man does not frequently trod; Where I'm alone with the hills and the azure, Alone with the pines and my God.

 Lying there on the sweet-scented carpet, With the pines murmuring softness above, The hard, cruel pain in my bosom Is replaced by contentment and love.


 My sadness is lulled into silence, My sorrows away from me roll, The pines' consolation is given me, Their peace and security enter my soul. Contributed by A. R. Hurst B landing, Utah.