- Full Text
- May I with innocence and peace,
My fleeting moments spend;
And when this vale of life shall ceace,
With calmness meet my end.
- Listed on Page Number
- 283
- Sampler Worked By
- Elizabeth and Ann French
- Date of Sampler
- 1793
- Place Sampler Made
- Philadelphia, PA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 46
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- R.A. “A Wish,” The Intellectual Regale; or Ladies’ Tea Tray, edited by Mary Clarke Carr, Vol.1, No. 9, Saturday, January 14, 1815, p, 143.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Dickinson, Mary, c.1809, Berks Co., PA, pg. 149;
Farra, Sussannah, 1809, n.p., pg. 155;
Jefferis, Ann, 1804, West Chester, PA, pg. 180;
Laing, Martha, 1810, n.p., pg. 185;
Nicholson, Rebecca, 1801, n.p., pg. 201;
Patterson, Sarah Ann Ewalt, 1819, Pittsburg (no state mentioned), pg. 205;
Wisner, Mary, 1801, New York, pg. 243.
https://archive.org/details/sim_illinois-monthly-magazine_1815-01-14_1_9
This 1815 variant of the sampler verse points to an earlier source poem by “R.A.,” who remains otherwise unidentified.