Hymn 113. The Pearl of Great Price 

Matt. 13. 46

         Ye glittering toys of earth adieu,

                     A nobler choice be mine;

         A real prize attracts my view,

                     A treasure all divine.

         Be gone, unworthy of my cares,                                                            

                     Ye specious baits of sense;

         Inestimable worth appears,

                     The pearl of price immense.

         Jesus, to multitudes unknown,

                     O name divinely sweet!                                                              

         Jesus, in thee, in thee alone,

                     Wealth, honor, pleasure meet.

         Should both the Indies at my call,

                     Their boasted stores resign,

         With joy I would renounce them all,                                                                

                     For leave to call thee mine.

         Should earth’s vain treasures all depart,

                     Of this dear gift possess’d;

         I’d clasp it to my joyful heart,

                     And be for ever bless’d.                                                              

         Dear sovereign of my soul’s desires,

                     Thy love is bliss divine;

         Accept the wish that love inspires,

                     And bid me call thee mine.

Text: Timothy Whelan, gen. ed., Nonconformist Women Writers, 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011), vol. 2, p. 93; Collection of Hymns Adapted to Public Worship, no. 113 (all stanzas); Poems, 1780, vol. 3, pp. 142-43; no surviving MS in the Steele Collection, Angus Library, Regents Park College,  Oxford, though Caleb Evans would have had access to the manuscripts that resided at Broughton House.