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In life’s gay morn when sprightly youth With vital ardor glows And smiles with all the fairest charms Which beauty can disclose Deep in thy heart before its powers Are yet by vice enslaved Be thy creator’s glorious name And character engraved For soon the shades of grief shall cloud The sunshine of thy days And cares and toils in endless round Encompass all thy ways Soon shall thy heart the woes of age In mournful groans deplore And sadly muse on former joys That now return no more.

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In life’s gay morn when sprightly youth With vital ardor glows And smiles with all the fairest charms Which beauty can disclose Deep in thy heart before its powers Are yet by vice enslaved Be thy creator’s glorious name And character engraved For soon the shades of grief shall cloud The sunshine of thy days And cares and toils in endless round Encompass all thy ways Soon shall thy heart the woes of age In mournful groans deplore And sadly muse on former joys That now return no more.
Listed on Page Number
299
Sampler Worked By
Margaret Martin
Date of Sampler
1763
Place Sampler Made
Charleston, SC
Sampler Listed on Page
62
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Blacklock, Thomas. “XVI. Eccles. xii.I.,” Translations and Paraphrases, in verse, of several passages of sacred scripture…Church of Scotland, Edinburgh: J. Dickson, 1781. pas., 14-15.
Notes
Also stitched by: Fox, Mary, 1826, Hartford, CT, pg. 158. https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_translations-and-paraphr_church-of-scotland-gene_1781/page/n17/mode/2up This verse is credited to Thomas Blacklock, but does not appear in either editions of his published poems in 1754 and 1756. He was a Presbyterian minister and poet. Although the date of the source of this source of the poem is later than our sampler, it may have appeared in an earlier volume of Church of Scotland materials which may not be online.