---
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: 16
number: 7
published: 1913-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Lambourne, Alfred, "Wild Rose," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 7 (May 1913): 677.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1607unse
  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: improvementera1607unse
start_page: 677
end_page: 677
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1607unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Wild Rose

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Ah! Wild Rose blooming by the rustic way, Upon the hillside, or in meadows green, Or by the falling stream and drenched with spray, Where'er you grow, you still are Beauty's Queen. Each year, within the shaded mountain dell, The silken petals in the sunlight gleam; That gift unto the rose, Ah! who can tell, Sweet perfume as a dream within a dream? But once you ope to greet the rising sun, And one short night you slumber through the hours, Then drop the faded petals one by one, Your life and reign are ended, Queen of Flowers! HOPE. 3k= // IF