- Full Text
- Delightful task, to rear the tender thought
And teach the young idea how to shoot
- Listed on Page Number
- 270
- Sampler Worked By
- Mary A Randall
- Date of Sampler
- 1818
- Place Sampler Made
- Smithfield (no state)
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 214
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Thompson, James. The Seasons, The Works of James Thompson London, 1750.
- Notes
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works/ci8JAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=delightful+task+to+rear+the+tender+thought&printsec=frontcover
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This is a compilation of Thompson’s works. Poem first printed earlier.
Additional background- https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/new-elucidations-of-thomson-s-seasons-1822/