---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Guest, Edgar A.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 7
published: 1918-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Guest, Edgar A., "Results and Roses," *Improvement Era* 21, no. 7 (May 1918): 580.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2107unse
  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: improvementera2107unse
start_page: 580
end_page: 580
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2107unse
  publication_year: 1918
  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 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Results and Roses

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Results and Roses

                                (Selected)

          The man who wants a garden fair
            Or small or very big,
          With flowers growing here and there,
               Must bend his back and dig.

           The things are mighty few on earth
            That wishes can attain.
          Whate'er we want of any worth
            We've got to work to gain.

          It   matters not what goal you seek,
                        here reposes:
               Its secret
          You've got to dig from week to week
           .To get results and roses.
                             Edgar A. Guest, in A Heap o Livin.