The Ruin [Wrætlic is þæs wealstan]

Originale	Imperial Walls di Peter Hammill
THE RUIN [WRÆTLIC IS ÞÆS WEALSTAN]	IMPERIAL WALLS
Wrætlic is þæs wealstan;          wyrde gebræcon, burgstede burston,       brosnað enta geweorc. Hrofas sind gehrorene,             hreorge torras, hrungeat berofen,                       hrim on lime, scearde scurbeorge           scorene, gedorene, Aeldo undereotone.                   Eorðgrop hafað waldendwyrhtan,          forweorone, geleorene heard gripe hrusan,                   oþ hund cnea werþeoda gewitan.             Oft þæs wag gebad, ræghar and readfah,                 rice  æfter oþrum, ofstonden under stormum; steap	Strange to behold is the stone of this wall broken by fate.
IX. geap gedreas wonað giet se............num ge X. heapen felon.........................................................grimme XI. gegrunden............................................................a scan heo XII. …........................................................................orþone ær sceaft XIII. ….......................................................................lam rindum beag mod mo XIV. …....ry ne swiftne gebrægd          hwæt red in hringas	The strongholds are bursten, the work of giants decaying; the roofs are fallen, the towers are tottering, mouldering palaces roofless, weather-marked masonry shattering. Shelters time-scarred, tempest-marred, undermined of old.
hygerof gebond weallwalan wirum                  wundrum togæedre. Beorht wæeron burgræced,          burnsele monige, heah horngestreon,                 heresweg micel, meodoheall monig                    mondreama full, oþþæt þæt onwende,                  wyrd seo swiþe Crungon walo wide,             cwoman woldagas swylt eall fornom                      secgrofra wera; wurdon hyra wigsteal               westenstaþolas brosnade burgsteall.               Betend crungon, hergas to hrusan.    Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað and þaes teaforgeapa               tigelum sceadeð hrostbeages hrof.             Hryre wong gecrong gebrocen to beorgum           þær iu beorn monig glædmod and goldbeorht         gleoma gefrætwed, wlonc and wingal                   wighyrstum scan, seah on sinc, on sylfor,           on searogimmas, on ead, on æht,                         on eorcanstan, on þas beorhtan burg                  bradan rices. Stanhofu stodan,                stream hate wearp widan wylme;                        weal eall befeng beorhtan bosme.	Earth's grasp holdeth its mighty builders tumbled, crumbled, in gravel's harsh grip till a hundred generations of men pass away.
XXX. þær þa baþu wæron on hreþre þæt wæs hyðelic leton þonn XXXI. geotan …...............................................ofer harne stan hate strea XXXII. mas un ….............................................oþ þæt hring XXXIII. mere hate ….......................................þær þa ba XXXIV þu wæron þonne is …......................... XXXV. re .þ is cynelic þing huse …................ XXVI.                                                               burg ..............................	Till a hundred generations of men pass away, Till a hundred generations of men pass away.