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STUDIOUS Father of light and life! thou God supreme O teach me what is good! teach me thyself. Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss.

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STUDIOUS Father of light and life! thou God supreme O teach me what is good! teach me thyself. Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss.
Listed on Page Number
311
Sampler Worked By
Hannah Freeborn
Date of Sampler
1817
Place Sampler Made
n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page
159
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Thomson, James. Winter. A Poem. London: J. Millan, 1726, p. 9.
Notes
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_winter-a-poem-by-james_thomson-james_1726_0/page/n12/mode/1up?q=supreme The heading “STUDIOUS” does not appear in Thomson’s original poem.