How blest the maid who circling years improve Her god the object of her warmest love Whose useful hours successive as they glide The book the Needle and the Pen divide Who sees her parents heart exult with joy And the fond tear stands sparkling in their eye. Blest with the hope when the lifes cares dismiss Of a Kind welcome to the realms of bliss

Full Text: How blest the maid who circling years improve Her god the object of her warmest love Whose useful hours successive as they glide The book the Needle and the Pen divide Who sees her parents heart exult with joy And the fond tear stands sparkling in their eye. Blest with the hope when the lifes cares dismiss Of a Kind welcome to the realms of bliss
Listed on Page Number: 331
Sampler Worked By: Sarah Ann Eddy
Date of Sampler: 1771
Place Sampler Made: Milbury
Sampler Listed on Page: 43
Author/Publication/Country/Date: “Lines for a Young Lady’s Sampler,” The Massachusetts Magazine, Or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment, Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Company, March 1789, Vol. 1, Issue 3, p. 187.
Notes: https://archive.org/details/sim_massachusetts-magazine-or-monthly-museum_1789-03_1_3 This text explains it’s “For the Massachusetts Magazine,” which suggests that this is the first appearance of this poem. Only the Sarah Ann Eddy sampler appears earlier than the rest of the stitchers below and numerous other examples I found online. Perhaps an earlier example does exist, or the date on the Eddy sampler entry is mistaken. The last couplet does not appear with the first three lines in the Massachusetts Magazine as above. A search for this yielded no result.