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Observe the rising lily’s snowy grace; Observe the various vegetable race They neither toil nor spin but careless grow, Yet see how warm they blush how bright they glow! Will he not care for you ye faithless say? Is he unwise? or are ye less than they

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Observe the rising lily’s snowy grace; Observe the various vegetable race They neither toil nor spin but careless grow, Yet see how warm they blush how bright they glow! Will he not care for you ye faithless say? Is he unwise? or are ye less than they
Listed on Page Number
326
Sampler Worked By
Elizabeth Pilsbury Marshall
Date of Sampler
1823
Place Sampler Made
West Newbury, MA
Sampler Listed on Page
193
Author/Publication/Country/Date
“A Paraphrase on the latter Part of the Sixth Chapter of St. Matthew.” Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands…London: Mr. Ralph, 1729, p. 343. Thomson, James. “A Paraphrase on the latter Part of the Sixth Chapter of St. Matthew,” The Seasons, London: 1730, p.2.
Notes
1729 Uncredited: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_miscellaneous-poems-by-_1729 1730 Credited: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-seasons-by-mr-thom_thomson-james_1730_0 This second link is more legible than the 1729 publication which appeared uncredited. The 1730 publication of collected works lists no publisher for the entire volume, but names it’s list of subscribers, unpaginated, at the beginning.