Ye glittering toys of earth, adieu is a hymn by Anne Steele: it was published on pp142-143 of Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse, the third volume of the 1780 (posthumous) edition of Steele's works (supplementing the two volumes of Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional). In that collection, it is headed 'The Pearl of great price. Matt. xiii. 46.'. It was included as Hymn 187 in John Rippon's collection A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors.