What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The Soul's calm sun-shine, and the heart-felt joy,
Is Virtue's Prize: A better would you fix,
And give Humility a Coach and six?
Justice a Conqu'ror's sword, or Truth a Gown,
Or Publick Spirit, its great cure, a Crown?
Rewards that either would to Virtue bring
No joy, or be destructive of the thing.
How oft by these at sixty are undone
The Virtues of a Saint at twenty-one!