- Full Text
- “BLISS OF CELESTIAL ORIGIN”
Restless mortals toil for nought
Bliss in vain from earth is sought
Bliss a native from the sky
That never wanders. Mortals try,
Then you can not; seek in vain
For to seek her is to gain.
- Listed on Page Number
- 309
- Sampler Worked By
- Elizabeth Bryarly
- Date of Sampler
- 1812
- Place Sampler Made
- Winchester, VA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 133
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Harrison, Elizabeth. Miscellanies on Moral and Religious Subjects in Prose and Verse, London: Elizabeth Harrison, 1756, p. 316 see also: Murray, Lindley. The English Reader or Pieces in Prose and Poetry…Philadelphia: B. & J. Johnson, 1801, p. 288.
- Notes
- Harrison:
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_miscellanies-on-moral-an_harrison-elizabeth_1756/page/316/mode/1up?q=%22there+you+cannot+seek+in+vain%22
Murray:
https://archive.org/details/englishreaderor01murrgoog/page/n276/mode/1up?q=celestial
Elizabeth Harrison’s original title to this poem is “Of True Happiness.” It is ever after published anonymously.
The title “Bliss of Celestial Origin” is first used in Lindley Murray’s English Reader a popular school book, by 1801.
Our stitcher’s verse is a variation of the original.