- Full Text
- As memory o’er this task shall wake
And retrospective pleasure take
Oft shall I wish but wish in vain
To enjoy youth’s careless hours again
- Listed on Page Number
- 270
- Sampler Worked By
- Harriett Draper
- Date of Sampler
- 1829
- Place Sampler Made
- Providence (?)
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 150
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Poem entitled “Lines for a Miss’s Sampler”; Published in “The Lady’s Miscellany or Weekly Visitor” October 26, 1811. Vol XIV, no. 3. p 48.
- Notes
- Verse 113 (Var) stitched by Lucy D. Saunders, Newburyport, MA 1810.
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