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

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. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Lady_s_Miscellany_Or_Weekly_Visitor/pdsRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=as+memory+o%27er+this+task+shall+wake+oft+shall+i+wish+but+wish+in+vain+and+retrospective+...&pg=PA48&printsec=frontcover