- Bolton & Co. Verse:
- 53
- Full Text
- When soon or late we reach that coast
O’er life’s rough ocean driven
May we rejoice no wanderer lost
A Family in Heaven
- Listed on Page Number
- 262
- Sampler Worked By
- Draper Family Register
- Date of Sampler
- c1808
- Place Sampler Made
- n.p.
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 150
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Burns, Robert. “O Thou Dread Power” written in 1786
- Notes
- Notes:
This family register also used Verses 83, 287.
https://www.robertburns.org/works/136.shtml
“Lying at a reverend friend’s house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept.”
There are 6 verses. The sampler uses the last one.
This verse is appropriate for end of life celebrations. Used on gravestones – i.e. Blair, Sketches of Glasgow (Scotland) Necropolis was the 1st municipal cemetery with lots of verses on the all-male burial ground.