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.