The Ruin

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"The Ruin of the Empire", or simply "The Ruin", is an elegy in Old English, written by an unknown author probably in the 8th or 9th century, and published in the 10th century in the Exeter Book, a large collection of poems and riddles. The poem evokes the former glory of an unnamed ruined ancient city that some scholars have identified with modern Bath, juxtaposing the grand, lively past with the

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"Wrætlic is þæs wealstan. Wyrde gebræcon; burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc. Hrofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras, hrim geat torras berofen, hrim on lime, scearde scurbeorge, scorene gedrorene, ældo undereotone. Eorðgrap hafað waldend wyrhtan forweorone, geleorone, heardgripe hrusan, oþ hund cnea werþeoda gewitan. Oft þæs wag gebad ræghar and readfah rice æfter oþrum, ofstonden under stormum; steap geap gedreas."

The Ruin