- Full Text
- Quickly will my glass of life be run
And with it all my gain and sorrow gone
No more shall I these Earthly Toys desire
But cold and peaceful to the grave retire
- Listed on Page Number
- 288
- Sampler Worked By
- Eliza Custis Teackle
- Date of Sampler
- 1804
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 229
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Rowe, Elizabeth Singer. Letters on various occasions, in prose and verse. London: T. Worrall, 1729. pg. 183
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_letters-on-various-occas_rowe-elizabeth-singer_1729/page/183/mode/1up
Lines 1, 2 and 4 are from the same verses on pg. 183. The original third line, “Then I no more shall feel Love’s cruel Fire,” has been replaced from a source unknown.
Line 3 seems to draw influence from several sources that include the phrase “earthly toys.” Although there is no exact match for this text there is a popular Hymn from 1780 by Susanna Harrison entitled, “Tell me no more of Earthly Toys,” that was popular at the time. https://hymnary.org/text/tell_me_no_more_of_earthly_toys#instances