Metrical Charm 8: For a Swarm of Bees

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Wið ymbe nim eorþan, oferweorp mid þinre swiþran
handa under þinum swiþran fet, and cwet:
Fo ic under fot,         funde ic hit.
Hwæt, eorðe mæg         wið ealra wihta gehwilce

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and wið andan         and wið æminde
and wið þa micelan         mannes tungan.
And wiððon forweorp ofer greot, þonne hi swirman, and cweð:
Sitte ge, sigewif,         sigað to eorþan!
Næfre ge wilde         to wuda fleogan.

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Beo ge swa gemindige         mines godes,
swa bið manna gehwilc         metes and eþeles.