Sampler at Levi Coffin House in Fountain City, Indiana.

Notice the missing "Z" among the first set of letters.
This was omitted deliberately by the stitcher so as to remind that the only one who can obtain perfection is God.

The poem reads:

Celestial happiness when 'ere she stoops
To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds,
And one alone, to make her sweet amends
For absent heaven --- the bosom of a friend.

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