--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Baggarley, Maud 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: 'Baggarley, Maud, "A Song of Praise," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 1 (November 1919): 78.' 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: 78 end_page: 78 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. --- # A Song of Praise A Song of Praise We thank Thee, Omnipotent One, For the down-fl wing heat of the sun Upon the wide, fragrant fields A benediction of peace; A promise of fruitful increase! For the mystery of unfolding leaf For the bud that holds in its sheath Beauty divine Our thanks, for the glory is Thine. For the rain that quickens and thrills, Through the pregnant earth and fills It with marvelous impulses new; For the rose of the dawn, And the blue of the hills and the sea And the wondrous sublimity — — Of all the star the clod For life, and work, and love, We thank Thee, God. -Maud Baggarley