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The Partridge

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 17 sections

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   Hyrde ic secgan gen bi sumum fugle

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   wundorlicne

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   fæger,

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   þæt word þe gecwæð wuldres ealdor:

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   "In swa hwylce tiid swa ge mid treowe to me

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   on hyge hweorfað, ond ge hellfirena

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   sweartra geswicað, swa ic symle to eow

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   mid siblufan sona gecyrre

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   þurh milde mod. Ge beoð me siþþan

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    torhte tireadge talade ond rimde,

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    beorhte gebroþor on bearna stæl."

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    Uton we þy geornor gode oliccan,

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    firene feogan, friþes earnian,

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    duguðe to dryhtne, þenden us dæg scine,

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    þæt swa æþelne eardwica cyst

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    in wuldres wlite wunian motan.

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    Finit.

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