---
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: 9
published: 1923-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "False or True", *Improvement Era* 26, no. 9 (July 1923): 834.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2609unse
  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: improvementera2609unse
start_page: 834
end_page: 834
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1923-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2609unse
  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.
---

# False or True

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False or True How sharp my pain if thou as false appear, . And rapt my soul when I beleive thee true! How chills my heart at hidden danger near, As if my breath the upas poison drew! If some unguarded word deceptions show, Or glance of waywardness a fault reveals, Then peace not any of my moments know, And yet a kiss, again, my anger steals! Thus I exult, or anguish in my fears, Love brings me triumph or this aching brow, I list unto the music of the spheres, Or whisper, as I fear, thy broken vow : Yet prove still true, or "false as Cressid" be, Not time nor fate can take love's past from me! Alfred Lambourne