---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 24
number: 4
published: 1921-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Stream," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 4 (February 1921): 348–349.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2404unse
  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: improvementera2404unse
start_page: 348
end_page: 349
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2404unse
  publication_year: 1921
  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 1921, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Stream

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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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THE STREAM                            319

           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.