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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 91652, member: 33"]The earliest one that I found (and I think you found it as well) appears to have been in <i>The Parlor Book: or Family Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge and General Literature; ornamented with fine colored engravings</i>. The one that comes up in Google Books was published in 1837. There was an 1835 edition of the book that appears in digital form in HathiTrust. However, it differs in that the plate where this poem appears in 1837 does not seem to appear in the 1835 edition. There is a chance that the plate did appear in 1835 and was missing from the digitized version. I'm not sure. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1837 edition it's on page 16, near where the definition of Amaranth is in the encyclopedia. Here is a link. The poem appears with a lovely color plate of an amaranth flower. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rJNRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16-IA1&lpg=PA16-IA1&dq=%22unprofaned+by+a+tear,+or+mortality%27s+breath%22&source=bl&ots=KpqFiCkM0S&sig=xrd926e1ImxpBU9b6pHhmVAkp9M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwA2oVChMIk_zIxIj_yAIVxtgeCh0H0AEz#v=onepage&q=%22unprofaned%20by%20a%20tear%2C%20or%20mortality%27s%20breath%22&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rJNRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16-IA1&lpg=PA16-IA1&dq=%22unprofaned+by+a+tear,+or+mortality%27s+breath%22&source=bl&ots=KpqFiCkM0S&sig=xrd926e1ImxpBU9b6pHhmVAkp9M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwA2oVChMIk_zIxIj_yAIVxtgeCh0H0AEz#v=onepage&q=%22unprofaned%20by%20a%20tear%2C%20or%20mortality%27s%20breath%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=rJNRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16-IA1&lpg=PA16-IA1&dq="unprofaned+by+a+tear,+or+mortality's+breath"&source=bl&ots=KpqFiCkM0S&sig=xrd926e1ImxpBU9b6pHhmVAkp9M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwA2oVChMIk_zIxIj_yAIVxtgeCh0H0AEz#v=onepage&q="unprofaned by a tear, or mortality's breath"&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1835 edition that is in HathiTrust, page 16 would have been a good place for that plate, but it does not appear.</p><p><a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89094396132;view=1up;seq=39" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89094396132;view=1up;seq=39" rel="nofollow">http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89094396132;view=1up;seq=39</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The author of this book was John Lauris Blake (1788-1857), an author and clergyman who was born in New Hampshire: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lauris_Blake" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lauris_Blake" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lauris_Blake</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know whether he wrote the poem or not. He seems to have been multi talented!</p><p><br /></p><p>Pat, I did look in a few reference books that have "first line" indexes and "last line" indexes to poems. I did not find this anywhere. And not knowing what the first line really was, I tried several options. I'm all out of ideas for finding the author of this. Overall, it probably doesn't matter if you are going to sell it. I know we are all curious, though!</p><p><br /></p><p>Fig[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 91652, member: 33"]The earliest one that I found (and I think you found it as well) appears to have been in [I]The Parlor Book: or Family Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge and General Literature; ornamented with fine colored engravings[/I]. The one that comes up in Google Books was published in 1837. There was an 1835 edition of the book that appears in digital form in HathiTrust. However, it differs in that the plate where this poem appears in 1837 does not seem to appear in the 1835 edition. There is a chance that the plate did appear in 1835 and was missing from the digitized version. I'm not sure. In the 1837 edition it's on page 16, near where the definition of Amaranth is in the encyclopedia. Here is a link. The poem appears with a lovely color plate of an amaranth flower. [URL]https://books.google.com/books?id=rJNRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16-IA1&lpg=PA16-IA1&dq=%22unprofaned+by+a+tear,+or+mortality%27s+breath%22&source=bl&ots=KpqFiCkM0S&sig=xrd926e1ImxpBU9b6pHhmVAkp9M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwA2oVChMIk_zIxIj_yAIVxtgeCh0H0AEz#v=onepage&q=%22unprofaned%20by%20a%20tear%2C%20or%20mortality%27s%20breath%22&f=false[/URL] In the 1835 edition that is in HathiTrust, page 16 would have been a good place for that plate, but it does not appear. [URL]http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89094396132;view=1up;seq=39[/URL] The author of this book was John Lauris Blake (1788-1857), an author and clergyman who was born in New Hampshire: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lauris_Blake[/URL] I don't know whether he wrote the poem or not. He seems to have been multi talented! Pat, I did look in a few reference books that have "first line" indexes and "last line" indexes to poems. I did not find this anywhere. And not knowing what the first line really was, I tried several options. I'm all out of ideas for finding the author of this. Overall, it probably doesn't matter if you are going to sell it. I know we are all curious, though! Fig[/QUOTE]
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