WorkHenry Vaughan

“Rules and Lessons" [Silex Scintillans or Thalia Rediviva]”

Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) · 1650–55

InferredFuller heads this section 'Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan / 1695.' She then copies four stanzas of verse beginning 'When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave.' The poem is Vaughan's 'Rules and Lessons' (first published in Silex Scintillans, 1650, expanded 1655). Fuller's date '1695' is the year of Vaughan's death, not the poem's publication — possibly she is noting from a biographical source.

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Documented 1839

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Journal April 1839

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“Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan / 1695.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).

Inferred Fuller heads this section 'Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan / 1695.' She then copies four stanzas of verse beginning 'When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave.' The poem is Vaughan's 'Rules and Lessons' (first published in Silex Scintillans, 1650, expanded 1655). Fuller's date '1695' is the year of Vaughan's death, not the poem's publication — possibly she is noting from a biographical source.

The text closely matches 'Rules and Lessons' as printed in standard editions of Vaughan's works.