Is not a soul athirst a joyous thing?

Where lies content to him whose eye doth rest on higher things?

What satiation can compare to hope?

Yet who among the satisfied hath need of hope?

What can he hope for if he’s satisfied?

’Tis but conceit, and nothing more, to prate of satisfaction!

God spare the day when I am satisfied!

I do not want the earth,

Yet nothing less will leave me quite content;

And once ’tis mine,