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Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Wrætlic is þes wealstan, wyrde gebræcon;
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The city buildings fell apart, the works
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burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc.
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Of giants crumble. Tumbled are the towers
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Hrofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras,
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Ruined the roofs, and broken the barred gate,
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hrungeat berofen, hrim on lime,
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Frost in the plaster, all the ceilings gape,
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scearde scurbeorge scorene, gedrorene,
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Torn and collapsed and eaten up by age.
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ældo undereotone. Eorðgrap hafað
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And grit holds in its grip, the hard embrace
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waldend wyrhtan forweorone, geleorene,
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Of earth, the dead-departed master-builders,
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heardgripe hrusan, oþ hund cnea
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Until a hundred generations now
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werþeoda gewitan. Oft þæs wag gebad
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Of people have passed by. Often this wall
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ræghar ond readfah rice æfter oþrum,
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Stained red and grey with lichen has stood by
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ofstonden under stormum; steap geap gedreas.
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Surviving storms while kingdoms rose and fell.
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Wonað giet se ...num geheapen,
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And now the high curved wall itself has fallen.
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fel on
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grimme gegrunden
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The heart inspired, incited to swift action.
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scan heo...
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Resolute masons, skilled in rounded building
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...g orþonc ærsceaft
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Wondrously linked the framework with iron bonds.
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...g lamrindum beag
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The public halls were bright, with lofty gables,
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mod mo... ...yne swiftne gebrægd
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Bath-houses many; great the cheerful noise,
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hwætred in hringas, hygerof gebond
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And many mead-halls filled with human pleasures.
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weallwalan wirum wundrum togædre.
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Till mighty fate brought change upon it all.
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Beorht wæron burgræced, burnsele monige,
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Slaughter was widespread, pestilence was rife,
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heah horngestreon, heresweg micel,
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And death took all those valiant men away.
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meodoheall monig %%M%% dreama full,
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The martial halls became deserted places,
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oþþæt þæt onwende wyrd seo
swiþe.
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The cities crumbled, its repairers fell,
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Crungon walo wide, cwoman woldagas,
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Its armies to the earth. And so these halls
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swylt eall fornom secgrofra wera;
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Are empty, and this red curved roof now sheds
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wurdon hyra wigsteal westen staþolas,
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Its tiles, decay has brought it to the ground,
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brosnade burgsteall. Betend crungon
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Smashed it to piles of rubble, where long since
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hergas to hrusan. Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað,
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A host of heroes, glorious, gold-adorned,
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ond þæs teaforgeapa tigelum sceadeð
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Gleaming in splendour, proud and flushed with wine,
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hrostbeages hrof. Hryre wong gecrong
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Shone in their armour, gazed on gems and treasure,
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gebrocen to beorgum, þær iu beorn monig
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On silver, riches, wealth and jewelry,
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glædmod ond goldbeorht gleoma gefrætwed,
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On this bright city with its wide domains.
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wlonc ond wingal wighyrstum scan;
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Stone buildings stood, and the hot streams cast forth
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seah on sinc, on sylfor, on searogimmas,
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Wide sprays of water, which a wall enclosed
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on ead, on æht, on eorcanstan,
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In its bright compass, where convenient
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on þas beorhtan burg bradan rices.
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Stood hot baths ready for them at the centre.
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Stanhofu stodan, stream hate wearp
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Hot streams poured forth over the clear grey stone,
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widan wylme; weal eall befeng
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To the round pool and down into the baths.
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beorhtan bosme, þær þa baþu wæron,
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hat on hreþre. þæt wæs hyðelic.
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Leton þonne geotan
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ofer harne stan hate streamas
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un...
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...þþæt hringmere hate
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þær þa baþu wæron.
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þonne is
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...re; þæt is cynelic þing,
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huse ...... burg....
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Wrætlic is þes wealstan; wyrde gebræcon,
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burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc.
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Hrofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras,
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hrungeat berofen, hrim on lime,
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scearde scurbeorge scorene, gedorene,
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Aeldo undereotone. Eorðgrop hafað
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waldendwyrhtan, forweorone, geleorene
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heard gripe hrusan, oþ hund cnea
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werþeoda gewitan. Oft þæs wag gebad,
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ræghar and readfah, rice æfter oþrum,
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ofstondem under stormum; steap geap gedreas.
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Mod monade, myne swiftne gebrægd;
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hwætred in hringas, hygerof gebond
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weallwalan wirum wundrum togæedre.
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Beorht wæeron burgræced, burnsele monige,
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heah horngestreon, heresweg micel,
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meodoheall monig mondreama full,
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oþþæt þæt onwende, wyrd
seo swiþe
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Crungon walo wide, cwoman woldagas
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swylt eall fornom secgrofra wera;
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wurdon hyra wigsteal westenstaþolas
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brosnade burgsteall. Betend crungon,
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hergas to hrusan. Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað
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and þaes teaforgeapa tigelum sceadeð
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hrostbeages hrof. Hryre wong gecrong
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gebrocen to beorgum þær iu beorn monig
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glædmod and goldbeorht gleoma gefrætwed,
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wlonc and wingal wighyrstum scan,
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seah on sinc, on sylfor, on searogimmas,
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on ead, on æht, on eorcanstan,
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on þas beorhtan burg bradan rices.
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Stanhofu stodan, stream hate wearp
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widan wylme; weal eall befeng
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beorhtan bosme þær þa baþu wæron,
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hat on hreþre; þæt wæs hyðelic.
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Leton þonne geotan ......................
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ofer harne stan hate streamas
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under............ ....................
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oþþæt hringmere, Hate..............
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................ þær þa baþu wæron.
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