To Thee, O Death, my fleeting moments tend, In Thee the hurricane of life must end. For tho’ the seas have leave to ebb & flow, The streams of life must always forward go.

Full Text: To Thee, O Death, my fleeting moments tend, In Thee the hurricane of life must end. For tho’ the seas have leave to ebb & flow, The streams of life must always forward go.
Listed on Page Number: 287
Sampler Worked By: Susanna Stevens Pearch
Date of Sampler: 1804
Place Sampler Made: n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page: 205
Author/Publication/Country/Date: Tily, Sir Joseph. “A Poem, by Sir Joseph Tily, upon his own Sickness,” The Second Volume of Miscellaneous Works written by George, Late Duke of Buckingham…Thomas Brown, editor, London: Samuel Briscoe, 1705., p. 109
Notes: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-second-volume-of-mis_buckingham-george-villi_1705/page/n137/mode/1up?q=%22seas+have+leave This is a combined volume of the papers of George, late Duke of Buckingham and poetry by various authors. Lines have been selected from this work.