- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 70
- Full Text
- To each unthinking being, heaven, a friend
Gives not the useless knowledge of its end;
To man imparts it; but with such a view
As, wilst he dreads it, make makes him hope it too,
The hour concealed, and so remote the fear
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
- Listed on Page Number
- 264
- Sampler Worked By
- Henrietta Stevens
- Date of Sampler
- 1788
- Place Sampler Made
- Talbot County, MD
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 77
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Pope, Alexander. “An Essay on Man” Epistle III part 1, 1733-34.
- Notes
- Full poem found at:
https://ygodallowsevil.com/alexander-pope-an-essay-on-man/
Full stanza:
To each unthinking being, Heaven, a friend,
Gives not the useless knowledge of its end:
To man imparts it; but with such a view
As, while he dreads it, makes him hope it too;
The hour concealed, and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
Great standing miracle! that Heaven assigned
Its only thinking thing this turn of mind.