"Let virtue be..." calligraphic manuscript copybook

13 leaves loosely bound with a few vernacular stitches; 9.75 x 7.75 inches. (5)p copybook exercises, (1) blank, (20)p verses with ornamental titles. No date; ca. 1840-50, purchased in Pennsylvania. Good to Very Good with short closed tears along the edges, outer leaves attached only toward the upper spine, light dampstaining and age toning. 

Selections are not attributed, but many are recognizable from contemporary anthologies of hymns and verse, heavy on Thomas Moore. Notable are Francis Scott Key's, "If Life's Pleasures Cheer Thee," "The Exile of Erin" by Thomas Campbell, and "Ode by S. Blaisdell." Other selections (from their headings) are "The Spring" (Thomas Carew), "But who shall see... this World is all a Fleeting Show" (Moore), "The Hermit," "Miriams Song," "Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypts dark sea! (Moore), "The turf shall be my fragrant shrine" (Moore), "Our Native Shores" (appears elsewhere as "The wandring sailor"), "Hope of all passions most befriends..." and "Virtuous Elevation" (Edward Young), and "Thy judgements Lord are just" (translated by Henry Kirke White).