Table monitor

Printed area measures 16.8 cm. x 13.8 cm. Poem in 8 numbered eight-line stanzas, on the proper use of food, from a Shaker viewpoint. Within border of type ornaments printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of text: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. - Christ. Internal evidence suggests suggests possible range of date of publication. Generally attributed to Hannah Bronson or Brownson; cf. Richmond. Also cf. version in Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by C. E. Sears (Boston, 1916), p. 258-259.