- Full Text
- Gay dainty Flowers of swiftly to decay
Poor wretched Life Short Portion flies away
We eat drink we sleep but to anon
Old Age Steals on us never thought upon
- Listed on Page Number
- 284
- Sampler Worked By
- Catherine Bond
- Date of Sampler
- 1797
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 32
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found.
- Notes
- Found the verse referred to elsewhere but only as used on samplers. However, both times the word “swiftly” was “simply” and the punctuation on line 3 was different.
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