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The Stream

Improvement Era, vol. 24, no. 4, February 1921, pp. 348 to 349

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations

The Stream

O rippling stream, with golden gleam! Tell unto me, I pray, how far you flow, And where you go, upon this summer day? Beside logs old, where shadows cold Fall glistening on the way, you glide along, Singing a song, upon this summer day.

In your water clear, without a fear, The fishes swim and play. With silvery side They sport and glide, upon this summer day. And I have seen tall ferns of green, With breath like new mown hay, bend over you As lovers do, upon this summer day.

The song birds bright, seem to delight, Stopping on the way, to sing a song, Sweet and strong, upon this summer day. Even the frog, on the mossy log, — In vesture green and gay, loves well I ween, Thy sparkling sheen, upon this summer day.

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And above all these, grand towering trees, Staunch sentinels for aye, call to yo.u sweet, Down at their feet, upon this summer day. O rippling stream, with golden gleam! Flow onward where you may, how blest to be An hour with thee, upon this summer day. D. C. Retsloff.

A Remarkable Picture This picture represents, in the child, the great great-grandson of the late President Wilford Woodruff. The child was two years of age, September 28, 1920. The people representing his progenitors are as follows, beginning from left to right, back row: Mary A. Jackson, great-grandmother; Daisy Jackson Gunn, grandmother; B. LeRoy Gunn, father; Fanny Ensign Gunn, mother; Mary Woodruff Ensign, grandmother; Alice Bowdidge Gunn, great-grandmother. Front row: Fanny Lloyd Woodraff, great-grandmother; James J. Woodruff, great-grandfather; John F. Gunn, grandfather; Samuel L. Ensign, great-grandfather; Mary Engell Ensign, grandmother. Baby, Richard L. Gunn, great-great-grandson of President Wilford Woodruff.