Solomon and Saturn
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afielde hine ða under foldan sceatas,
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heht hine ðær fæste gebindan. ðæt sindon ða usic feohtað on.
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Forðon is witena gehwam wopes eaca.
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ða ðæt eadig onfand engla dryhten,
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ðæt heo leng mid hine lare ne namon,
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aweorp hine ða of ðam wuldre and wide todraf,
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and him bebead bearn heofonwara
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ðæt hie ec scoldon a ðenden hie lifdon
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wunian in wylme, wop ðrowian,
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heaf under hefonum, and him helle gescop,
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wælcealde wic wintre beðeahte,
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wæter in sende and wyrmgeardas,
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atol deor monig irenum hornum,
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blodige earnas and blace nædran,
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ðurst and hungor and ðearle gewin,
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egna egesan, unrotnesse;
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and æghwylc him ðissa earfeða ece stondeð
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butan edwende a ðenden hie lifigað."
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Saturnus cwæð:
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"Is ðonne on ðisse foldan fira ænig
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eorðan cynnes, ðara ðe man age,
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ðe deað abæde, ær se dæg cyme
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ðæt sie his calendcwide arunnen
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and hine mon annunga ut abanne?"
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Salomon cwæð:
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"æghwylcum men engel onsendeð
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dryhten heofona ðonne dæg styreð;
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se sceall behealdan hu his hyge wille;
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grædig growan in godes willan,
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murnan metodes ðrym, mid ðy ðe hit dæg bið.
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ðonne hine ymbegangað gastas twegen;
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oðer bið golde glædra, oðer bið grundum sweartra,
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oðer cymeð
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ofer ðære stylenan helle;
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oðer hine læreð ðæt he lufan healde,
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metodes miltse, and his mæga ræd,
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oðer hine tyhteð and on tæso læreð,
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yweð him and yppeð earmra manna
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misgemynda, and ðurh ðæt his mod hweteð,
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lædeð hine and læceð and hine geond land spaneð,
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oððæt his ege bið, æfðancum full,
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ðurh earmra scyld yrre geworden.
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Swa ðonne feohteð se feond on feower gecynd,
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oððæt he gewendeð on ða wyrsan hand
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deofles dædum dæglongne fyrst,
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and ðæs willan wyrcð ðe hine on woh spaneð.
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Gewiteð ðonne wepende on weg faran
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engel to his earde and ðæt eall sagað:
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'Ne meahte ic of ðære heortan heardne aðringan
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stylenne stan; sticað him tomiddes'"
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