Menologium seu calendarium poeticum ex Hickesiano thesauro: or, the poetical calendar of the Anglo-Saxons / with an English translation and notes, by the Rev. Samuel Fox.

Date:: 1830

Credit: Menologium seu calendarium poeticum ex Hickesiano thesauro: or, the poetical calendar of the Anglo-Saxons / with an English translation and notes, by the Rev. Samuel Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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And magnificently Bringeth abundance great To the multitudes everywhere. The same day The noble companions, Philip and James, Magnanimous fellow servants, Gave their lives For the love of God. And then after two nights it is, That God revealed To the blessed Helen, The noblest of beams, On which suffered The King of angels, For love to man : The creator on the cross, By permission of the Father. Thence it is after the space of a week, With the exception of one night, That summer brings To men, Days bright like gems, And warm seasons. Then the fields spontaneously Blow with flowers, So that the joy

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