Thus when my draught some future time invades The silk and figure from the canvas fades A rival hand recalls from every part Some latent grace & equals art with art Transported we survey with dubious strife Each form & figure starts again to life.

Full Text: Thus when my draught some future time invades The silk and figure from the canvas fades A rival hand recalls from every part Some latent grace & equals art with art Transported we survey with dubious strife Each form & figure starts again to life.
Listed on Page Number: 275
Sampler Worked By: Mary Hatch
Date of Sampler: 1808
Place Sampler Made: Paris, NY
Sampler Listed on Page: 170
Author/Publication/Country/Date: Broome, William. " To Mr. Pope. On His Works, MDCCXXI (1726)”. England. line 23. https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/mr-pope-5
Notes: *The verse was extracted & adapted from William Broom’s poem, "To Mr. Pope by William Broome ON HIS WORKS, MDCCXXVI” The title refers to Alexander Pope with whom he worked on translating the Homer's 'The Odyssey'. William Broome (born May 3, 1689, Haslington, Cheshire, Eng.—died Nov. 16, 1745, Bath, Somerset) was a British scholar and poet, best known as a collaborator with Alexander Pope and Elijah Fenton in a project to translate Homer’s Odyssey Source: Brittanica This was also found: “Harriet Wells (1796-1814) of Woodbury, Connecticut, and New Hartford, New York, stitched these words on her delicate sampler in 1806, when she was eleven years old.” Source: https://bookreadfree.com/479023/11770085