Absent or dead still let a friend be dear A sigh the absent claim, the dead a tear

Full Text
Absent or dead still let a friend be dear A sigh the absent claim, the dead a tear
Listed on Page Number
197
Sampler Worked By
Sarah Wyatt Miller
Date of Sampler
1802
Place Sampler Made
Salem, New Jersey
Sampler Listed on Page
256
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Parnell, Thomas. London, England, 1717
Notes
Sampler worked by: S.W. Miller (Sarah Wyatt) Parnell was an Irish Poet who lived in London at the time this was written. This was an Epistle from a poetic letter addressed to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer. The Epistle was published in 1721 by Alexander Pope, a well known poet himself and friend of Parnell’s. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Poetical_Works_of_Thomas_Parnell/Poem_1