- Full Text
- Firm as a rock elevated mind
Stand[s] Faith the comforter of human kind.
Against each earthly evil we endure
She points at one an everlasting cure
Soft smiling hope thou anchor of the mind
And only comforter the wretched find
All fly to thee when troubles wring the heart
To soothe by future prospect present smart
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- 328
- Sampler Worked By
- No maker's name given in B&C
- Date of Sampler
- 1830
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- no sampler attached to the verse
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Fig. Faith. The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure…, Vol. 66, London: April 1780, between pages 212-213, Jones, Mary. “Of Desire,” Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Oxford: Mr. Dodsley, Mr. Clements and Mr. Frederick, 1750, p.33.
- Notes
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Universal_Magazine_of_Knowledge_and/KaxFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=FAith&pg=RA1-PA212-IA1&printsec=frontcover
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_miscellanies-in-prose-an_jones-mary_1750
The first stanza appears under an allegorical image of Faith in The Universal Magazine by 1780, but is uncredited. The second stanza does not appear in this work.
The second verse is a variation of Mary Jones’ poem “Of Desire,” published by 1750. The first stanza does not appear in this work
An exactly worded combination of the stanzas appears uncredited in newspapers and periodicals about a decade before this sampler was stitched. Often they appear with each stanza individually titled Faith, Hope and Charity. See an example of this featured in The Woodstock Herald of Woodstock, Virginia, USA (Woodstock Herald, Vol 1, No. 31, 22 July 1818, p. 4). Other instances include all of the Cardinal and Theological Virtues. One of these appears in the Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria Virginia, USA), Wednesday, June 12, 1816, p. 3. Subscription required.
An author and the origin of these lines were not found.