- Full Text
- 1) Behold alass our days we spent
How vain they are how soon they end
2) May useful arts employ my youth
with love of vertue & of truth
That when these fleeting moments end,
A Crown imortal I may find.
- Listed on Page Number
- 46
- Sampler Worked By
- Huldah Frye
- Date of Sampler
- 1747
- Place Sampler Made
- Andover, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 46
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- verse 1) Quarles, Francis. Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man, London: M. Flesher, for John Marriot, 1638. pgs. 35-36. Verse 2) No result found.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Hacker, Rebekah, 1786, Salem, MA, pg. 49;
Haskell, Sarah. 1782, Lunenburg, PA, pg., 51;
Kneeland, Mary, 1793, n.p., pg. 58;
Pickering, Lucia, 1759, Salem, MA, pg. 69;
Storer, Hannah, 1747, Groton, MA, pg. 77;
Watson, Nancy, 1755, n.p., pg. 84;
Boller, Harriot, 1802, n.p., pg. 129;
Varney, Susannah, 1808, Danvers, MA, pg. 235.
Verse 1- These 2 lines are the opening words to each stanza of Quarles poem which combine to form the phrase stitched.
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Verse 2- With so many examples of this phrase stitched there is likely a source for these lines. But no result was found.