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A) May I now in the morning of my day Resolve to choose the narrow way The way that leads to life and peace Where all trouble and sorrow cease. B) Engage this frail and wavering heart Wisely to choose the better part To scorn the trifles of a day For those that never fade away

Full Text
A) May I now in the morning of my day Resolve to choose the narrow way The way that leads to life and peace Where all trouble and sorrow cease. B) Engage this frail and wavering heart Wisely to choose the better part To scorn the trifles of a day For those that never fade away
Listed on Page Number
326
Sampler Worked By
Rachel Clarke
Date of Sampler
1816
Place Sampler Made
Stony Brook, NJ
Sampler Listed on Page
139
Author/Publication/Country/Date
A) No result found. B) Dodderidge, Phillip. Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures. Salop: Job Orton, 1755, p. 184. See also: Murray, Lindley. Introduction to the English Reader…St. John, NS: McMillan, 1800, p. 144.
Notes
A) The first verse was not found. B) https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_hymns-founded-on-various_doddridge-philip_1755 See also: https://archive.org/details/cihm_45405 The second verse is a variation of Phillip Dodderidge’s Hymn that appears later in Lindley Murray’s English Reader in a form much more like this variation.