And all his tender words repeat.

2 The world shut out from all my soul,

And heaven brought in with all its bliss,

Oh! is there aught, from pole to pole,

One moment to compare with this?

3 This is the hidden life I prize,

A life of penitential love,

When most my follies I despise,

And raise my highest thoughts above.

4 When all I am I clearly see,