Oh that important time could back return Those mispent hours whose loss I deeply mourn Accept kind heaven my penitence sincere My heartfelt sorrow and my fervent prayer.

Full Text: Oh that important time could back return Those mispent hours whose loss I deeply mourn Accept kind heaven my penitence sincere My heartfelt sorrow and my fervent prayer.
Listed on Page Number: 347
Sampler Worked By: Beulah Murdock
Date of Sampler: 1812
Place Sampler Made: Newton, MA
Sampler Listed on Page: 200
Author/Publication/Country/Date: More, Hannah. The Search after Happiness: a Pastoral Drama, 2nd ed., Bristol: S. Farley, T. Cadell, Carnan and Newberry, and W. Frederick, 1773, p. 32.
Notes: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-search-after-happine_more-hannah_1773