"The Ruin"
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- Flickr
- Collection:
- Ronnie Pitman
- Date:
- 2020-05-28 11:58:15
- Region:
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Richmond, Virginia
(inherited from collection) - Description:
- "This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it, courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying. Roofs are fallen, ruinous towers, the frosty gate with frost on cement is ravaged, chipped roofs are torn, fallen, undermined by old age. The grasp of the earth possesses the mighty builders, perished and fallen, the hard grasp of earth, until a hundred generations of people have departed. Often this wall, lichen-grey and stained with red, experienced one reign after another, remained standing under storms; the high wide gate has collapsed. Still the masonry endures in winds cut down." Translation of anonymous Old English poem, probably written in the 8th or 9th century, and included in the 10th century Exeter Book .
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