Dimensions 130 x 200 mm. Single card sheet, printed on one side only. Engraved vignette to head with caption: 'An emigrant to the Far-west of Canada, or the United States, having partially cleared his land, erected his log-hut & surmounting the first toils of settlement, thinks of his early and pious home, and remembering the lessons learnt at a British mother's knee, sits down with his Bible, and is supposed to sing the following'. Lightly creased, dust-soiled, and spotted.

An apparently unrecorded printing of a devotional poem in which an emigrant to North America wistfully recalls the memory of his parents and recitations from the family Bible. In 1867, Musician in Ordinary to Queen Victoria William Christian Sellé (1813-1898) published a piano score composed to accompany the poem. No record of the author of the hymn has survived. Intriguingly, the title page of Sellé's publication bears an illustration with the same caption as here; that version was lithographed by Thomas Howell Jones, whereas here the engraving is signed 'JW'. The hymn was printed in its entirety in at edition of The Sunday-School Magazine (June, 1850) recording a speech delivered by a well-travelled gentleman who claims to have learnt it whilst in the United States in 1847; remarkably, he sets the scene prior to his recitation with a close approximation of the aforementioned caption.