- Full Text
- Why all this toil for triumph of an hour?
What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame,
Earth’s highest station each in “Here he lies,”
And “dust to dust” concludes her noblest song
- Listed on Page Number
- 293
- Sampler Worked By
- M. Woodnutt
- Date of Sampler
- 1813
- Place Sampler Made
- Wilmington Boarding School, DE
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 244
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Young, Edward. Night Thoughts. London. 1742-43
- Notes
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Edward_Young/IGdH6xA7ZKMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Why+all+this+toil%22++Edward+Young&pg=PA74&printsec=frontcover
full text on page 74 in link above
Night Thoughts
Life, Death and Immortality
Night the Fourth