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[The whole of this great world, I say]

The whole of this great world, I say,
From the first to the last born,
Since it passes swift away,
Is not worth a barley-corn.
To some better world than this
Hie thee—open wide the door
To some chamber—such there is—
Whence thou shalt depart no more.