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This is the weird of a world-old folk, / That not till the last link breaks, / Not till the night is blackest, / The blood of Hengist wakes. / When the sun is black in heaven, / The moon as blood above, / And the earth is full of hatred, / This people tells its love.
In change, eclipse, and peril, / Under the whole world's scorn, / By blood and death and darkness / The Saxon peace is sworn; / That all our fruit be gathered, / And all our race take hands, / And the sea be a Saxon river / That runs through Saxon lands.