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So fades the lovely blooming flower Frail smiling solace of an hour So our transient comforts fly And pleasure only blooms to die

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So fades the lovely blooming flower Frail smiling solace of an hour So our transient comforts fly And pleasure only blooms to die
Listed on Page Number
145
Sampler Worked By
Harriet Cutler
Date of Sampler
1808
Place Sampler Made
Rockingham, VT
Sampler Listed on Page
145
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Steele, Anne [Theodosia]. Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional…Bristol: W. Pine, 1780. Vol 2, pg., 33. Reference in entry: Belknap, Jeremy. Sacred Poetry Consisting of Psalms and Hymns…Boston: J.T. Buckingham, 1808. 5th ed., p. 183.
Notes
Also stitched by: Briggs, Sarah Ann, 1828, Dighton, MA, pg. 132; Coffin, Apphia, 1819, Boscawen, NH, pg. 139; Keen, Palmyra M., 1824, n.p., pg. 182. https://archive.org/details/subjectsc02stee/page/33/mode/1up?q=blooming First published under the pseudonym Theodosia, in 1760, this poem by Anne Steele was published more broadly in these volumes in 1780. The citation appearing in Bolton and Coe’s entry refers to its inclusion as Hymn 228 in a Hymnal by Jeremy Belknap, as referenced above.