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This is a sampler worked by Mary Ann Tidye in 1813, aged 11 years. It is worked in fine silk thread and the work is of high quality. It reads

An Address to God

O Power - Supreme! To Thee My Thoughts I Turn,

Thou Only Comfort, When We Truly Mourn,

The Orphan's Parent, & The Widow's Friend,

To Thee, My Trembling Knees I Humbly Bend,

O Arm My Soul, The Stroke Of Fate To Bear,

And Check Th' Impetuous Torrent Of Despair,

Teach Me Submission To Thy Awful Doom,

To See Thy Mercies Thro' Misfortune Gloom.

Still With Thy Sacred Truth My Mind Inform,

To Guide My Steps Thro' Life'S Uncertain Storm,

For Thou Who Dost In Nought But Good Delight,

Hast Order'd All, And Therefore All Is Right