Here the fair form by nobler views refind Shines the bright mirror of the faultless mind With pity’s dew the eye of radiance flows With Learnings gem the breast of beauty glows.

Full Text: Here the fair form by nobler views refind Shines the bright mirror of the faultless mind With pity’s dew the eye of radiance flows With Learnings gem the breast of beauty glows.
Listed on Page Number: 270
Sampler Worked By: Celia Sophia Bourn
Date of Sampler: 1822
Place Sampler Made: n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page: 130
Author/Publication/Country/Date: Included in Bingham, Caleb, Selections of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Published by Evert Duyckinck, New York, 1817, 10th ed., p71.
Notes: In the book, the full poem titled, ‘An Address to the Visitants.’ is credited to “PHILENIA with a design that they should be spoken by a little Girl at one of the schools in Boston on the annual visitation.”