He is the happy man, whose life e’en now,

Shows somewhat of that happier life to come:

Who, doom’d to an obscure but tranquil state,

Is pleas’d with it, and, were he free to choose

Would make his fate his choice: whom peace, the fruit

Of virtue, and whom virtue, fruit of faith,

Prepare for happiness; bespeak him one

Content, indeed, to sojourn while he must

Below the skies, but having there his home,

The world o’erlooks him in her busy search