Classic Poem

Wrætlic is þes wealstan, wyrde gebræcon;
burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc.
Hiofas sind gehrorene, hreorge torras,
hrungeat berofen, hrim on lime,
scearde scurbeorge scorene, gedrorene,
ældo undereotone. Eorðgrap hafað
waldend wyrhtan forweorone, geleorene,
heardgripe hrusan, oþ hund cnea
werþeoda gewitan. Oft þæs wag gebad
ræghar ond readfah rice æfter oþrum,
ofstonden under stormum; steap geap gedreas
Wonað giet se [. . . . . . . . . . . . .]num geheapen,
fel on [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
grimme gegrunden [. . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . .] scan heo [. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .]g orþonc ærsceaft [. . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .]g [ ] lamrindum beag
mod mo[. . . . . . . . . .]yne swiftne gebrægd
hwætred in hringas, hygerof gebond
weallwalan wirum wundrum togædre.
Beorht wæron burgræced, burnsele monige,
heah horngestreon, heresweg micel,
meodoheall monig dreama full,
oþþæt þæt onwende wyrd seo swiþe.
Crungon walo wide, cwoman woldagas,
swylt eall fornom secgrofra wera;
wurdon hyra wigsteal westen staþolas,
brosnade burgsteall. Betend crungon
hergas to hrusan. Forþon þas hofu dreorgiað,
ond þæs teaforgeapa tigelum sceadeð
hrostbeages hrof. Hryre wong gecrong
gebrocen to beorgum, þær iu beorn monig
glædmod ond goldbeorht gleoma gefrætwed,
wlonc ond 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, þær þa baþu wæron,
hat on hreþre. thæt wæs hyðelic.
Leton þonne geotan [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]
ofer harne stan hate streamas
un[. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.]þþæt hringmere hate [. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .] þær þa baþu wæron.
thonne is [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .]re; þæt is cynelic þing,
huse [. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .] burg[. . . . .]