- Full Text
- CELESTIAL WISDOM
How happy is the youth who hears
Instructions warning voice
And who celestial wisdom makes
His early only choice
For she has treasures greater far
Than east or west unfold
And her reward is more secure
Than is the gain of gold
In her right hand she hold to view.
A length of happy years
And in her left a prize of fame
With honour bright appears
She guides the young with innocence
In pleasures path to tread
According as her labours rise
So her rewards increase
Her ways are ways of pleasantness
And all her paths are peace
- Listed on Page Number
- 271
- Sampler Worked By
- Mary Burgess
- Date of Sampler
- 23 August 1725
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 35
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Logan, John. “Hymn IV, Heavenly Wisdom,” Poems, by the Rev. Mr. Logan, One of the Ministers of Leith, London: T. Cadell, 1781, p. 104.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Brayton, Constant. 1770, Somerset, MA, p. 33;
Mareford, Abby, Providence, p. 193.
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