Than one good potato just washed from the dirt;
Yet not mountains of silver and gold could suffice
One pearl to outweigh—’twas The Pearl of Great Price.
Last of all, the whole world was bowled in at the grate,
With the soul of a beggar to serve for a weight,
When the former sprang up with so strong a rebuff
That it made a vast rent and escaped at the roof!
When balanced in air, it ascended on high,
And sailed up aloft, a balloon in the sky;
While the scale with the soul in’t so mightily fell,