Is the best gift of heaven: a happiness 285
That even above the smiles and frowns of fate
Exalts great Nature’s favourites: a wealth
That ne’er encumbers, nor to baser hands
Can be transfer’d: it is the only good
Man justly boasts of, or can call his own. 290
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn’d;
Or dealt by chance, to shield a lucky knave,
Or throw a cruel sun-shine on a fool.
But for one end, one much-neglected use,