'The Dream of the Rood'

<p>Leuk dat je luistert naar The Soul in Paraphrase.</p>

<p>Het gedicht voor deze week is &#39;The Dream of the Rood&#39; (oorspronkelijk oud-Engels, anoniem, uit een 10e-eeuws manuscript):</p>

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<p>&#39;Now you might hear, my beloved

hero,<br>

that I have experienced the work of evil-doers,<br>

grievous sorrows. Now the time has come<br>

that I will be honoured far and wide<br>

by men over the earth and all this glorious creation;<br>

they will pray to this beacon. On me the Son of God<br>

suffered for a while; because of that I am glorious now,<br>