Table monitor of the Shakers at Mt. Lebanon, N.Y

Urges guests to clean their plates without wasting food. Urges guests to clean their plates without wasting food. Printed in black on heavy paper in two columns divided by single line within chain-link type border. At head of text: "Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing may be lost."--Christ. Poem in eight numbered eight-line stanzas. In lower margin below rule within border: Copied by Elizabeth R. Avery, Mt. Lebanon, Shaker Village, June, 1868. Sometimes ascribed to Hannah Brownson or Bronson; cf. version in Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by C.E. Sears (Boston, 1916), p. 258-259.