- Full Text
- Lord what is life Tis like a flower
That blossoms and is gone
We see it flourish for an hour
With all its beauty on
But death comes like a wintry day
And cuts the pretty flower away
- Listed on Page Number
- 296
- Sampler Worked By
- Mary Gilson
- Date of Sampler
- 1826
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 163
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Caulkins, Frances Manwaring. The Child’s Hymnbook, New York: The American Tract Society. Pg. 150.
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/childshymnbook00caul/page/n136/mode/1up?q=%22Lord+what+is+life++Tis+like+a+flower+%22
This publication is undated. Hymnary.org notes in its entry that, “1840 is a best guess.” Her Wikipedia entry places it between 1846 and 1847. Frances Manwaring Caulkins, was an historian, genealogist and author. She wrote several items for the American Tract Society between 1835 and 1861.
This calls into question our sampler’s date.