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The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry


Homiletic Fragment I
Verse Indeterminate Saxon

sorh cymeð
manig ond mislic in manna dream.
Eorl oðerne mid æfþancum
ond mid teonwordum tæleð behindan,
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spreceð fægere beforan, ond þæt facen swa þeah
hafað in his heortan, hord unclæne.
Byð þonne þæs wommes gewita weoruda dryhten.
Forðan se witiga cwæð:
"Ne syle ðu me ætsomne mid þam synfullum
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in wita forwyrd, weoruda dryhten,
ne me on life forleos mid þam ligewyrhtum,
þam þe ful smeðe spræce habbað,
ond in gastcofan grimme geþohtas,
gehatað holdlice, swa hyra hyht ne gæð,
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wære mid welerum." Wea bið in mode,
siofa synnum fah, sare geblonden,
gefylled mid facne, þeah he fæger word
utan ætywe. ænlice beoð,
swa ða beon berað buta ætsomne
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arlicne anleofan, ond ætterne tægel
hafað on hindan, hunig on muðe,
wynsume wist. Hwilum wundiaþ
sare mid stinge, þonne se sæl cymeð.
Swa bioð gelice þa leasan men,
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þa ðe mid tungan treowa gehataþ
fægerum wordum, facenlice þencaþ,
þonne hie æt nehstan nearwe beswicaþ,
hafað on gehatum hunigsmæccas,
smeðne sybcwide, ond in siofan innan
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þurh deofles cræft dyrne wunde.
Swa is nu þes middangeard mane geblonden,
wanað ond weaxeð. Wacað se ealda,
dweleð ond drefeð dæges ond nihtes
miltse mid mane, mægene getryweð,
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ehteð æfestra, inwit saweð,
nið mid geneahe. Nænig oðerne
freoð in fyrhðe nimþe feara hwylc,
þæt he soðlice sybbe healde,
gastlice lufe, swa him god bebead.
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Forþan eallunga hyht geceoseð,
woruld wynsume, se ðe wis ne bið,
snottor, searocræftig sawle rædes.
Uton to þam beteran, nu we bot cunnon,
hycgan ond hyhtan, þæt we heofones leoht
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uppe mid englum agan moton
gastum to geoce, þonne god wile
eorðan lifes ende gewyrcan!



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