Then learn earth’s treasures to despise,
To heaven your spirit upward raising.
But ah! those riches who can paint,
Reserv’d in heaven for righteous spirits,
Or shew me but in outline faint,
What he who scorns the world inherits!
No eye hath seen, no ear hath heard,
Nor heart of man hath comprehended,
The peace and joy in heaven prepar’d,
For those who well their course have ended.