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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:22, 23 September 2025</td> </tr><tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 94:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 94:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>still it speaks to spirit and soul.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>still it speaks to spirit and soul.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;nowiki&gt;{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruin}}&lt;/nowiki&gt;</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[:Category:Poems]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <!-- diff cache key common_knowledge:diff:1.41:old-6:rev-7:wikidiff2=table:1.14.1:bc2a06be --> </table>

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Michael Thomas Jones https://commonknowledge.wiki/index.php?title=The_Ruin&diff=4&oldid=prev 2025-09-23T05:19:39Z

<p>Created page with &quot;THE RUIN (A Modern Alliterative Translation &amp; Completion) Note: The original Anglo-Saxon poem is fragmentary due to manuscript damage. The following version blends translation and creative reconstruction. The Ruin is a description of a deserted Roman city, probably at Bath. The poet musing on the ruins describes what he encountered and saw in poetic style. The poem is a part of what is called the Exeter folio which contains scripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry and riddles. It...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>THE RUIN<br /> <br /> (A Modern Alliterative Translation &amp; Completion)<br /> <br /> Note: The original Anglo-Saxon poem is fragmentary due to manuscript damage. The following version blends translation and creative reconstruction. The Ruin is a description of a deserted Roman city, probably at Bath. The poet musing on the ruins describes what he encountered and saw in poetic style. The poem is a part of what is called the Exeter folio which contains scripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry and riddles. It was most likely transcribed by a monk or cleric at Exeter England.<br /> <br /> Robert N. Taylor, 2025.<br /> <br /> Wondrous is this wall-stone, wasted by Wyrd,<br /> <br /> Broken by battle, battered by time.<br /> <br /> Mighty the makers, memories gone,<br /> <br /> Shattered the strongholds, sunlit yet silent.<br /> <br /> Rime-scoured ramparts, roofless halls,<br /> <br /> Frost has gripped them, fire has gnawed.<br /> <br /> Time and its talons took what was proud,<br /> <br /> Gnawed the bright walls—great was the ruin!<br /> <br /> Stones once stood, storm-fast, wide-spanning halls,<br /> <br /> High-gabled homes, now hollow with age.<br /> <br /> The halls are fallen, the hearths are cold,<br /> <br /> The revel is ended, the rulers are dust.<br /> <br /> Gone are the guards, the golden light,<br /> <br /> The banquets, the bliss, the boast of men.<br /> <br /> Once gold gleamed on graven gates,<br /> <br /> Bright were the bath-halls, beams on the roof,<br /> <br /> Lofty the towers that touched the sky—<br /> <br /> Pride of a people, princes long dead.<br /> <br /> Hot flowed the springs, hollowed in stone,<br /> <br /> Wondrously walled, welling with heat,<br /> <br /> Steam curling skyward, scented with herbs,<br /> <br /> A gift to the guests of the great-hearted givers.<br /> <br /> (— Beginning of Fragmented Section —)<br /> <br /> There warriors washed their war-weary limbs,<br /> <br /> After the fray, fresh from the fight.<br /> <br /> Blissful in bathing, bold men laughed,<br /> <br /> Lords of the land, long since gone.<br /> <br /> Crafted with cunning, these courts and halls,<br /> <br /> Risen by hands hewn to skill,<br /> <br /> Mortared with marvels, matched with gems,<br /> <br /> Built to endure—but doomed to fade.<br /> <br /> Wyrd is relentless; ruins bear witness.<br /> <br /> Stone does not sing, but stands in sorrow.<br /> <br /> Time conquers towers, tears down thrones,<br /> <br /> Severs the strong, sunders all bonds.<br /> <br /> Lo! This learning lies in the dust—<br /> <br /> Wisdom of ancients, wasted by years.<br /> <br /> Yet Whispers of wonder, warning the proud.<br /> <br /> (— End of Reconstruction —)<br /> <br /> Let him who walks here wonder in thought,<br /> <br /> Marking these walls, the might that was.<br /> <br /> Gone is the glory, the gleaming past,<br /> <br /> Dust upon dust, and dreams turned to past<br /> <br /> still it speaks to spirit and soul.</div>

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