- Full Text
- Then mortal torn thy cares forgo.
All earthborn cares are wrong.
Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long.
- Listed on Page Number
- 288
- Sampler Worked By
- Sarah javob Briggs
- Date of Sampler
- 1805
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 132
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Goldsmith, Oliver. “The Hermit,” The Vicar of Wakefield, Dublin: W. and W. Smith, A. Leathley, J. Hoey, Sr., P.Wilson, J. Exshaw, E. Watts, H. Saunders, J. Hoey, Jr., J. Potts, and J. Williams. 1766, pg. 70
- Notes
- https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-vicar-of-wakefield-_vicar-of-wakefield_1766/page/70/mode/2up?q=pilgrim
As noted in the verse’s entry this is a variation of a stanza from “The Hermit” by Oliver Goldsmith. Originally published in 1765, it’s also included by the author as a poem within The Vicar of Wakefield in 1766.
Line one originally reads, “Then, pilgrim, turn, they cares forego:”