- Full Text
- Grace is a plant Where eer it grows
Of Pure and Heavenly root
But Fairest in the Youngest Shows
And Yields the Sweetest Fruit.
- Listed on Page Number
- 310
- Sampler Worked By
- Phebe Newman
- Date of Sampler
- 1815
- Place Sampler Made
- Newbury, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 201
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Cowper, William. “Hymn VIII,” Olney Hymns, John Newton, London: W. Oliver, 1779, p. 190.
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_olney-hymns-in-three-bo_newton-john_1779/page/192/mode/1up?q=%22Grace+is+a+plant%22
In Olney Hymns, the author is only given as C. It’s attributed to William Cowper in John Julien’s Dictionary of Hymnology, Vol. 1, p. 138.