- Full Text
- The loss of gold is great
The loss of time is more
The loss of Jesus is so great
That no more can restore.
- Listed on Page Number
- 319
- Sampler Worked By
- Elizabeth Bradley
- Date of Sampler
- 1792
- Place Sampler Made
- Dracut, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 33
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Combs, Eliza Ann, 1818, Newburyport, p. 142.
See verse #488. These lines are a variation of an older verse in the style of an epigram. Many variations are cited below but the original was not found. They are all anonymous. The variation with father and mother seems to have been especially popular for samplers, and may have appeared in a school book at one time, or just been popularly known.
See list of variations below.
Variations:
- As a motto on decorative arts: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125005923814/page/254/mode/1up?q=%22the+loss+of+gold+is+great%22
“The loss of gold is great,
The loss of health is more;
But the loss of Christ is such a loss
As no man can restore”
2. http://www.mosboroughhistory.co.uk/2018/07/19/poems-and-addresses-by-h-c-havenhand/
The loss of a father is very great,
But the loss of a mother is more,
But the loss of Christ is such a loss,
That no one can restore.
3. 1819 https://archive.org/details/per_early-baptist_the-youths-magazine-or-_1819_4/page/266/mode/1up?q=%22loss+of+Christ+is+such%22
The loss of time is much,
The loss of prayer is more,
The loss of Christ is such,
No mortal can restore
4.
On a tombstone - 1700
For loss of time is much,
The loss of truth is more,
The loss of Christ is such
The world cannot restore.
5. 1875 https://collections.sea.museum/en/objects/16323/the-loss-of-gold-is-great-the-loss-of-time-is-more-but-los
The loss of Gold is Great,
The loss of Time is more
But losing Christ is such loss
That no man can restore
6. 1788- https://collections.sea.museum/en/objects/16323/the-loss-of-gold-is-great-the-loss-of-time-is-more-but-los
The loss of time is much,
The loss of grace is more;
The loss of Christ is such
No mortal can restore.