[Sheet Music]: The Watcher Hale, Sarah J., Words By, And Dr. William Lardner, Music By Music,Poetry

Later printing. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Separated at the fold, edgewear including many chips where the piece was once folded, two dampstains at the top of the front cover affecting throughout, foxing and offsetting throughout, and a large tape repair to the blank back cover, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano. Sarah J. Hale is best remembered for writing the children's rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb." But this song, about a mother watching her child pass away in the middle of the night before succumbing to her own bleak fate, isn't quite as cheerful. *OCLC* locates nine holdings of this 1847 edition.