--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Lambourne, Alfred collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 15 number: 2 published: 1911-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Lambourne, Alfred, "The Rose," *Improvement Era* 15, no. 2 (December 1911): 176.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1502unse 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: improvementera1502unse start_page: 176 end_page: 176 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1911-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1502unse publication_year: 1911 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 1911, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Rose 176 IMPROVEMENT ERA 25, 1853, and with her had five sons and four daughters, He was a member of the famous Salmon River party of Prest. Brigham Young, in 1856. On Feb. 18, 1855, he was ordained Patriarch by Prest. Brigham Young. In 1859, he returned to the east for his sister and her family, and while gone visited Nauvoo, and the scenes of his boyhood. Returning, he conducted a company of forty wagons over the plains to Salt Lake Valley. Then he was called to go on a mission to Scandinavia, landing in Denmark, Sept. 6, 1862, and from which he returned, leaving Copenhagen, April 13, 1864. He sailed from Liverpool on The Monarch of the Sea, with a company of 973 souls, the largest company of Saints that had left Europe up to that time. He conducted a company of thirty wagons over the plains, and arrived in Salt Lake City, October 1, 1864. Since that time, he engaged in his duties as Presiding Patriarch, in early days covering the settlements of the whole Church, blessing the people, and administering to them comfort and consolation. More than twenty thousand, as stated, were thus blessed by him while he officiated in this holy office and calling. These, and hundreds of thousands of others, now bless his memory. Appro- priate funeral services were held in the great tabernacle on Sunday, November 12, and his remains are at rest in the City Cemetery, until the resurrection day. The Rose. Thirty-one crimson stanzas, full of poetic fire, fervor, and philosophy, in the author's own hand writing; and twenty-one artistic drawings of golden roses, in every attractive position, with love as all the theme, — the cover, title-page, paper and general design, in the highest art to match — that isTHE Rose, by the poet- artist, Alfred Lambourne. In every part of its make-up, the book testifies it was created only for the love of poetry and art. Only a hundred copies were printed, to be circulated among the poet's friends. The readers of the Era have Mr. Lambourne to thank for being favored in this issue with four of the stanzas and four of the artistic rose designs. The community have him to thank for one of the most artistic books ever made by a home printing office. It was executed by the Deseret News presses and bindery.