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68 They said—"The end is forbidden." They said—"Thy use is fulfilled,

"And thy palace shall stand as that other's—the spoil of a King who shall build."

I called my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves, and my shears.

All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years.

Only I cut on the timber, only I carved on the stone:

''After me cometh a Builder. Tell him, I too have known!''