Excerpt from Old English Poems: Translated Into the Original Meter, Together With Short Selections From Old English Prose
That the gallant people would give them soon A feast on the fated; now flew on their track The deadly devourer, the dewy-winged eagle, Singing his war song, the swart-coated bird, The horned of beak.
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