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Lazarus and the Gimp
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Whale-raping abomination
Aug 2000 time: 05:23
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quote: Originally posted by Kamrat X
Ok, what does it say? |
It's Bede's Death Song, a poem composed by The Venerable Bede on his death-bed in 735AD which makes it one of the oldest poems in English.
Strictly speaking it should be written in the Northumbrian Saxon dialect to reflect the original, but I think the West Saxon version is more attractive. Besides, as a Wessex man I'm biased.
In modern English it reads...
"Before the unavoidable journey there, no one becomes
wiser in thought than him who, by need,
ponders, before his going hence,
what good and evil within his soul,
after his day of death, will be judged."
Coming from a man who knew he was dying it's rather moving.
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