"Bliss within the burghs, when I burst forth with a cadenced song"
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Riddle IX, 'Riddle, The Nightingale', quoted by F. S. Flint, Preface, 'Otherworld Cadences', Poetry Bookshop, London, 1920
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Cynewulf
Cynewulf was one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets known by the name, who flourished in the 9th century.
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