- Full Text
- Behold alas our days we spend
But it is in vain they soon will end.
- Listed on Page Number
- 292
- Sampler Worked By
- Anna Jaques
- Date of Sampler
- 1812
- Place Sampler Made
- Newbury, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 179
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Quarles, Francis. Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man, London: M. Flesher, for John Marriot, 1638. pgs. 35-36.
- Notes
- These lines are the opening words heading each stanza of Quarles poem which combine to form the phrase stitched.
https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_hieroglyphikes-of-the-li_quarles-francis_1638/page/n42/mode/1up?q=%22the+life+of+man%22
See also Verse #248, Pg. 286