- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 25
- Full Text
- In native white and red
The Rose and Lily Stand
And free from Pride their beauties spread
To Shew thy skilful Hand
- Listed on Page Number
- 258
- Sampler Worked By
- Mehitable Thurston
- Date of Sampler
- 1795
- Place Sampler Made
- Newbury, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 79
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Watts, Isaac. , "Horae Lyricae Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind", England, 1706.
- Notes
- Bolton and Coe credits the verse as coming from “A Collection of Hymns,” 1803. No author given.
In 'Horae Lyricae', this verse is part of a poem “Sincere Praise” which starts “Almighty Maker God, How Wondrous is thy name”
This text or variations of it was used in many Methodist hymnals including a Collection of Psalms and Hymns compiled by Charles Wesley in 1737.