- Full Text
- Dear Mother I am young and cannot show
Such work as I unto your goodness owe
Be pleased to smile upon my first endeavor
And Ill strive to be obedient ever
- Listed on Page Number
- 275
- Sampler Worked By
- n.n.
- Date of Sampler
- 1811
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- not listed in B&C
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found
- Notes
- This verse did not produce a “page number” or name result in B&C.
Found a similarity to the lines “Be pleased to smile upon my first endeavor” in a book by Hadden, James Cuthbert, “Prince Charles Edward: His life, Time, and Fight for the Crown” Pitman & Son, London, 1913, p.285 which states “God has been pleased so far to smile upon my honest endeavour“
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ccppAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA285&hl=en
Esther Goodall completed this sampler in 1840 with a slight variation: “ I’ll strive to learn to be obedient ever” https://scarlet-letter.com/esther-goodall-1840/
Louisa High completed it in 1862 with this change “I’ll strive to mend and be obedient ever”
https://www.traditionalstitches.com/p_owslh.html