King Alfred's Poems Now first turned into English Metres; By Martin F. Tupper |
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| XVIII. | XVIII. Of Sinful Pleasure. |
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XVIII. Of Sinful Pleasure.
Habet omnis hoc voluptas,
Stimulis agit furentes.
Stimulis agit furentes.
Eala thæt se yfla
Unrihta gedeth
Wratha willa &c.
Unrihta gedeth
Wratha willa &c.
Alas! that the evil unrighteous hot will
Of lawlessly wanton desire should still
Be a plague in the mind of each one!
The wild bee shall die in her stinging, tho' shrewd,
So the soul will be lost if the body be lewd,
Unless, ere it wend hence, the heart be imbued
With grief for the deed it hath done.
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