- Full Text
- In vain doth earthly life afford
A momentary shade
It rises like the prophet’s gourd,
And withers o’er my head
But of my Saviour’s love possest,
No more for earth I pine
secure of everlasting rest
Beneath the heavenly vine
- Listed on Page Number
- 322
- Sampler Worked By
- Keziah Gilmore
- Date of Sampler
- 1799
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 48
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Brackenbury, Robert Carr. Sacred Poetry; or, Hymns on the Principal Histories of the Old and New Testament…London: G. Story, 1800, pg. 246.
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_sacred-poetry-or-hymns_brackenbury-robert-carr_1800