May I with innocence and peace, My fleeting moments spend; And when this vale of life shall ceace, With calmness meet my end.

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.