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All our gaiety is vain All our laughter is but pain Only lasting and divine Is an innocense like thine.

Full Text
All our gaiety is vain All our laughter is but pain Only lasting and divine Is an innocense like thine.
Listed on Page Number
290
Sampler Worked By
Harriot Putney
Date of Sampler
1809
Place Sampler Made
Boscawen, NH
Sampler Listed on Page
212
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Unknown. “On an Infant.” John Hackett. Select and Remarkable Epitaphs on Illustrious and Other Persons…London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton, 1757. Vol. 1, pgs. 276-277.
Notes
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Select_and_Remarkable_Epitaphs_on_Illust/BH4DAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22All+our+gaiety+is+vain%22&pg=PA277&printsec=frontcover An excerpt from this larger epitaph titled “On an Infant.” 1757 is the earliest occasion I found it in print. Despite its popularity, I cannot find an earlier source or an author.