--- 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: 26 number: 6 published: 1923-04 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Easter Lily", *Improvement Era* 26, no. 6 (April 1923): 496.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2606unse 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: improvementera2606unse start_page: 496 end_page: 496 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1923-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2606unse publication_year: 1923 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 1923, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Easter Lily The Easter Lily 0 lily dear! Oh, wondrous choice Of all the flowers sweet ! With beauty rare you proudly stand, The Easter morn to greet. Your tender life — oh, happy thought — With Christ's it doth compare; Who lived, who died, who lives that we His heavenly joys might share. Your glossy leaves like steps they rise Along your graceful stem, Then at the top, in purest white, Unfolds the flower gem. So was the life of Christ our Lord, As step by step he rose, Until in strength of love most pure, His mission did disclose. 0 lily dear! your fragrance sweet, Your gift, you freely give; So on die cross the Savior gave His life that all might live. Oh, blessed resurrection morn! O promise, sacred, sure, That life again in perfect love, Forever will endure. Carrie Tanner