- Full Text
- When the solemn mandate fly
The Father and the infant die
- Listed on Page Number
- 286
- Sampler Worked By
- Phebe Mulford
- Date of Sampler
- 1803
- Place Sampler Made
- Roadstown, Cumberland Co., NJ
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 199
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Jenks, Stephen. “Mount Vernon,” The New England Harmonist, Danbury: Douglas & Nichols, 1799. pg. 9.
- Notes
- A variation derived from Stephen Jenks’ 1799 hymn, Mt. Vernon. https://hymnary.org/text/what_solemn_sound_the_ear_invades
“From heav’n the awful mandate flies, The Father of his country dies.”
Although first published in 1799, I have not been able to locate an original copy online. Jenks’ Collected Works gives publication details, while the link above gives the text. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Collected_Works/4iQ8mwRu-hAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=vernon