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 And here he was a goodly span, While before him came every man To kneel and worship in his sight: O there he had all might!

And yet, most surely, it befel He tired of this house as well: Was it too mighty after all? Or still perhaps too small? Strangely in all men's wonderment, He left it for a tenement He had all builded in one year: Now he is dwelling there.

He took full little of his gold; And of his pleasures manifold He had but a small heed, they say, That day he went away: —O, the new dwelling he hath found Is but a man's grave in the ground, And taketh up but one man's space In the burial place.