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Metrical Epilogue to the Pastoral Care

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 30 sections

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   ðis is nu se wæterscipe ðe us wereda god

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   to frofre gehet foldbuendum.

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   He cwæð ðæt he wolde ðæt on worulde forð

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   of ðæm innoðum a libbendu

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   wætru fleowen, ðe wel on hine

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   gelifden under lyfte. Is hit lytel tweo

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   ðæt ðæs wæterscipes welsprynge is

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   on hefonrice, ðæt is halig gæst.

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   ðonan hine hlodan halge and gecorene,

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    siððan hine gierdon ða ðe gode herdon

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    ðurh halga bec hider on eorðan

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    geond manna mod missenlice.

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    Sume hine weriað on gewitlocan,

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    wisdomes stream, welerum gehæftað,

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    ðæt he on unnyt ut ne tofloweð.

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    Ac se wæl wunað on weres breostum

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    ðurh dryhtnes giefe diop and stille.

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    Sume hine lætað ofer landscare

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    riðum torinnan; nis ðæt rædlic ðing,

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    gif swa hlutor wæter, hlud and undiop,

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    tofloweð æfter feldum oð hit to fenne werð.

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    Ac hladað iow nu drincan, nu iow dryhten geaf

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    ðæt iow Gregorius gegiered hafað

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    to durum iowrum dryhtnes welle.

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    Fylle nu his fætels, se ðe fæstne hider

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    kylle brohte, cume eft hræðe.

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    Gif her ðegna hwelc ðyrelne kylle

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    brohte to ðys burnan, bete hine georne,

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    ðy læs he forsceade scirost wætra,

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    oððe him lifes drync forloren weorðe.

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