I have seen the bright azure of morn/ I have found that the rose has a thorn/ With darkness and clouds shadowed o’er/ Which will wound when its bloom is no more

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Full Text
I have seen the bright azure of morn/ I have found that the rose has a thorn/ With darkness and clouds shadowed o’er/ Which will wound when its bloom is no more
Listed on Page Number
259
Sampler Worked By
Celia Sheldon
Date of Sampler
1806
Place Sampler Made
Cranston (probably Rhode Island)
Sampler Listed on Page
221
Author/Publication/Country/Date
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Notes
Notes: Also worked by: Mary Sprague, (1806), p.225; Phebe Sprague, (1807), p 225; Elizabeth T. Fisk (1830), p157. For full text see page 3 and 4 of this link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Emerald_or_Miscellany_of_literature/dBAuAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22confesses+a+source+of+its+own%22&pg=PA4-IA6&printsec=frontcover Emerald, or Miscellany of Literature. Vol II 1807 (formerly Boston Magazine) Printed in above publication but not the original publication. Can be found reprinted in several publications with no author and titles that are probably not original (e.g. Sonnet to Disappointment; A Retrospective view of Life.)