With hearts elate, we grasp the prize;

The charm is fled, the phantom dies!

What stock soe’er the misers have,

The heart will ever something crave;

Which, when possest, not soothes the mind,

But leaves an anxious blank behind.

What tho’ no bags of gold we’ve got?

We may be happy in our lot;

And with our little still content,

Our all perhaps will ne’er be spent: