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Poetry.
POETRY .
SEVEN SHORT SPECIMENS OF KING ALFRED'S OWN POETRY , LITERAILY TRANSLATED FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON INTO ENGLISH RHYMES From the forthcoming Jubilee Edition of " The Works of Alfred the Great , now first collected after a Thousand Years . " BY MARTIN F . TOPPER , ESQ ., D . C . L ., F . R . S . *
I . t" Gif nu hsletha hwone hlisan lyste , " Ste . ] If any man will be so vain As now for fume to lust , The empty praise of man to gain And in such folly trust
, Him would I hid to gaze around The circle of the sky , And think how far above the ground The heav ' n is wide and high . & c . II .
[ " Hweet bith theem welegan Woruld-gitsere , " & c . ] What is a man the better , — A man of worldly mould , — Though he be gainful getter Of richest gems and gold , With every kind well-fill & d Of goods in ripe array , And though for him be tilled A thousand fields a day ? & e .
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Poetry.
POETRY .
SEVEN SHORT SPECIMENS OF KING ALFRED'S OWN POETRY , LITERAILY TRANSLATED FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON INTO ENGLISH RHYMES From the forthcoming Jubilee Edition of " The Works of Alfred the Great , now first collected after a Thousand Years . " BY MARTIN F . TOPPER , ESQ ., D . C . L ., F . R . S . *
I . t" Gif nu hsletha hwone hlisan lyste , " Ste . ] If any man will be so vain As now for fume to lust , The empty praise of man to gain And in such folly trust
, Him would I hid to gaze around The circle of the sky , And think how far above the ground The heav ' n is wide and high . & c . II .
[ " Hweet bith theem welegan Woruld-gitsere , " & c . ] What is a man the better , — A man of worldly mould , — Though he be gainful getter Of richest gems and gold , With every kind well-fill & d Of goods in ripe array , And though for him be tilled A thousand fields a day ? & e .