Object number1997.7.27
Sampler
Date1735
Artist
Sussanna Giles
(English)
CultureEnglish
MediumSilk on Linen
DimensionsSight: 9 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (24.77 x 44.45 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from Vassar College Libraries, Special Collections, Martha Clawson Reed Collection
On View
Not on viewPeriod18th c
Classification(s)
SignedAt center: Sussanna Giles
InscribedAll Things are Hard When First We Begin[Beget?]/But Time and Patience All Things Will Win/Delight in Learning Soon Doth Bring a Chil/d to Learn the Hardest Thing/If all Mankind Would Live in Mutual/ Love This World Would Much Resemble/ that above/ Awake, arise, behold thou hast Thy Life a/Leaf thy Breath a Blast at Night Lie Down/Prepare to heve they Sleep thy Death thy/ Bed thy Grave/Lord Give Me Wisdom to DIrect My Ways I Ask Not RIches Nor Yet/Length of Days My Lifes a Flower And The Time It Hath To Last Is/ Mixed with Prose and Shook With Every Blast Not House Nor Land Nor Measured heaps of Wealth Can Render to a/ Dying Man his Health Sussana Giles July 20 1735/ But Oh How Free a Mercy this That Deaths A Portal/Into Bliss While Yet the Bodys Scarce Undrest The/ Soul Is Slipt Into Its Rest/ Who While Below In Faith And Love Are Sure To Live With/Christ Above A Bosom Heaven Will Appoint To Those That Live A Life Unto The Lord ___ Glory Unto God On High Amen Say I/ If You Desire To Worship God Aright/ First In the Morning Pray And Last At/ Night Crave For His Blessings on Your /Labours Al And In Distress For His Help/ My Soul Death Swallows of Thy Fears Thy Grave Cloaths/ Dry of All Thy Tears Why Should We Fear this Parting Paid/Who Die That We May Live Again/December 23
At center: Sussanna Giles July 30 1735 Dec. 23 (or25)
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