Through oceans vast and markets crowned with light,
Where lesser pearls in shadowed heaps were pressed,
Yet none could stir thy soul to pure delight.
Then burst the One—a blaze of sovereign grace,
Defying gold, outshining every throne,
Whose glory shattered sin’s confining chains
And crowned the seeker king in realms unknown.

With shouts of victory he flung the old away—
Fields, fortunes, all—in rapturous release,
To seize the pearl where endless glories sway,
The conquering gift that bids the captive cease:

Salvation—born again, the soul made new—
No cost too dear to win this pearl so true.