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Glittering Stones and golden things, Wealth and Honors that have wings Ever fluttering to be gone, I could never call my own; Riches that the world bestows She can take, and I can lose; But the treasures that are mine, Lie afar beyond her line; When I view my spacious soul, And survey myself awhole, And enjoy myself alone, I am a Kingdom of my own.

Full Text
Glittering Stones and golden things, Wealth and Honors that have wings Ever fluttering to be gone, I could never call my own; Riches that the world bestows She can take, and I can lose; But the treasures that are mine, Lie afar beyond her line; When I view my spacious soul, And survey myself awhole, And enjoy myself alone, I am a Kingdom of my own.
Listed on Page Number
303
Sampler Worked By
Nabby Jewett
Date of Sampler
1797
Place Sampler Made
Bradford, MA
Sampler Listed on Page
56
Author/Publication/Country/Date
Watts, Isaac. Horae Lyricae: Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind…London: J. Humphreys, 1709. 2nd Ed., Pg. 207-208.
Notes
https://archive.org/details/horael00watt/page/n2/mode/1up?q=%22Glittering+Stones+and+golden+things%22 This verse is one selected stanza of a poem entitled “True Riches”.