- Full Text
- This Life is like a morning Flower
Cut Down & Withered in an hour.
- Listed on Page Number
- 284
- Sampler Worked By
- Lydica Tuxbury
- Date of Sampler
- 1797
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 81
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Watts, Isaac. Psalms of David: imitated in the language of the New Testament, and apply’d to the Christian state and worship. London: J. Clark, 1719. p.. 182
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Clark, Phoebe, 1798, Stony Brook, NJ, pg. 38;
Currier, Abigail A., 1830 Newbury, MA, pg. 144;
Mersailles, Hannah Smith 1812, Bridgeton, NJ, pg. 195.
A variation of verse five of:
https://archive.org/details/staaaimi00watt/page/182/mode/2up?q=wither%27d
“An empty tale; a Morning Flow’r
Cut down and wither’d in an Hour.”