- Full Text
- Religion should your thoughts engage
Amidst your youthful bloom.
To fit yourself for ------- age
And for the awful tomb.
- Listed on Page Number
- 283
- Sampler Worked By
- Elizabeth Bigbi
- Date of Sampler
- 1796
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 32
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Fawcett, C.M. “Hymn CCLXXXIV Spiritual Mindfulness or inward Religion.” A Selection of Hymns From the Best Authors,… Dr. John Rippon, London: Thomas Wilkins, 1787. Unpaginated.
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-selection-of-hymns-fro_1787/page/n275/mode/1up?q=fawcett
Third Stanza:
“Religion, should our Thoughts engage,
Amidst our youthful Bloom;
’Twill fit us for declining Age,
And for the awful Tomb.”