"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
>> lytlað."
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> Could you translate?
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Roughy:
"Thought must be the harder, heart the keener Spirit shall be more - as our might lessens."
(http://www.battleofmaldon.org.uk/poem_4.htm)
It's from one of my favorite Old English poems, which is eerily appropriate for discussions of American union politics.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."