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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.
