---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Kleinman, Bertha A.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 24
number: 9
published: 1921-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Kleinman, Bertha A., "Our Flag," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 9 (July 1921): 767.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2409unse
  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: improvementera2409unse
start_page: 767
end_page: 767
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2409unse
  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.
---

# Our Flag

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                                                                          Our Flag
1                           Flag of the morning's Coronal,
                            Thou of Columbia's votive shrine,
                            Flag of the primal summit born,
                              Lift thou our hope with thine,
1                             High on the aspen wind,
                            Minstrel the theme with our psalm beset,
                            Thy pulsing ripple, the flageolet
                              That breathes the blest compline.

                            Flag of the seared and pageful years,
                            Flaming thou in the newer dawn
                            Architrave of the Unseen Hand,
                               Sift thou thy star-dials on
                                    Epochs and eras gone
                             Have chrismed thee with the prayers of men,
                            And hero-hearts have renewed again
                                     Thy pageant millions strong.

                             Flag of unsullied deeds and days,
                             Of martyr's clasp caressed and wrung,
|                            Beatified by hands that clung
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                               Thy flexible bars among;
                               Thy sheen, thus trophy-hung,
                             Shines out with more than fortress spire,
                             Or chaplet wreath or council pyre,
|                              Or spoils of conquest won.

                             Flag unfurled on the highest mount,
                             That the lowest vale shall have Liberty,
                              Ensign flung to the horizon,
                                     That the basest serf shall see
                                     And chortle to be free
                                 thou Supreme o'er worlds afar,
                              'Tis Thou who flames her topmost star
 |                               That anchors us to Thee.
 |        Mesa, Arizona                                                                                                         Bertha A. Kleinman

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