---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hodapp, Minnie Iverson
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 25
number: 1
published: 1921-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Minnie Iverson Hodapp, "The Fair Day," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 1 (November 1921): 10.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse
  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: improvementera2501unse
start_page: 10
end_page: 10
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2501unse
  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 Fair Day
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The Fair Day God gives to me this glorious day Of snow-clad peaks and blue-bent skies Wherein to love and dearly prize The warmth of His celestial ray. Sweet joy hath come again to reign! (What of the tempest in my heart) ! God smiles and all my fears depart; Fresh hopes, like flowers, upspring again. Ah, list! I hear yon blue bird sing, Begone old grief, begone dull care, 'Mid warmth and sunshine, everywhere Eternal Love! Eternal Spring! Salem, Utah Minnie Iverson Hodapp