King Alfred's Poems Now first turned into English Metres; By Martin F. Tupper |
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XXX. Of the True Sun.
Puro clarum lumine Phœbum
Melliflui canit oris Homerus; &c.
Melliflui canit oris Homerus; &c.
Omerus wæs
East mid Græcum
On thæm leodscipe. &c.
East mid Græcum
On thæm leodscipe. &c.
Homer, among the Eastern Greeks, was erst
The best of bards in all that country-side;
And he was Virgil's friend and teacher first,
To that great minstrel master well allied.
The best of bards in all that country-side;
And he was Virgil's friend and teacher first,
To that great minstrel master well allied.
And Homer often greatly praised the sun,
Her highborn worth, her skilfulness most true;
Often by song and story many a one
He to the people sang her praises due.
Her highborn worth, her skilfulness most true;
Often by song and story many a one
He to the people sang her praises due.
Yet can she not shine out, tho' clear and bright,
Everywhere near to everything allways,
Nor further, can she shed an equal light
Inside and out on all that meet her rays.
Everywhere near to everything allways,
Nor further, can she shed an equal light
Inside and out on all that meet her rays.
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But the Almighty Lord of worldly things,
Wielder and Worker, brightly shines above
His own good workmanship, and round all flings
An equal blaze of skilfulness and love!
Wielder and Worker, brightly shines above
His own good workmanship, and round all flings
An equal blaze of skilfulness and love!
That is the true Sun, whom we rightly may
Sing without leasing as the Lord of Day.
Sing without leasing as the Lord of Day.
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