- Full Text
- Short is the longest day of life
And soon its prospect ends,
Yet on this days uncertain date
Eternity depends.
Yet equal to our beings aim
The space to virtue given
And every minute well improved
Secures and age in heaven
- Listed on Page Number
- 284
- Sampler Worked By
- Rebekah Hathaway
- Date of Sampler
- 1794
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 51
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Carter, Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions. London: John Rivington, 1766, 2nd Edition pg.56.
- Notes
- This is the third and fourth stanza of “On a Watch”
May have appeared in the first edition in 1762. Only the 2nd edition is found online, but it is not noted as enlarged in this 2nd edition: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/RuqnoOA1at4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=prospect