Elsewhere not a thought bestowing,

Now I quit the paths I trod;

Stranger now to worldly pleasure,

Here I lay not up my treasure,

Hid my life with Christ in God.

This the lot I would inherit;

Let my heart, and soul, and spirit

In Thy service, Lord, be bowed;

Thine henceforth, O blessed Saviour,

May I, in my whole behaviour,