---
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, "Keep Smiling", *Improvement Era* 26, no. 9 (July 1923): 769.'
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: 769
end_page: 769
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.
---

# Keep Smiling

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Keep Smiling It's easy for a man to smile, On life's brief undulating mile, When things are right, and all the while Keep Smiling. But when the things we cherish go, And through our lives reverses flow, It's hard to smile, but weal or woe, Keep Smiling. When angry clouds go rolling by, Across the last blue strip of sky, And tear drops spargle in your eye, Keep Smiling. A smile upon a heart of pain Is like a rainbow, in the rain, Entangled in a golden chain Bright bending over hill and plain; Keep Smiling. Take to your heart this simple thought And hold it tight, it helps a lot, If you can smile no matter what, Keep Smiling. If you can stand right up and grin With a sore, bleeding heart within, Your goal is yours; you're sure to win. Keep Smiling. Our woes are temporary things. In every human ill that springs The bird of hope divinely sings. Keep Smiling. Don't let the heart within you die; The spring will brighten up the sky, And faith will triumph by and by; Keep Smiling. — Theodore E. Curtis.