{"id":1698,"date":"2009-09-14T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/09\/dream-of-the-rood\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:21:00","slug":"dream-of-the-rood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/09\/dream-of-the-rood.html","title":{"rendered":"Dream of the Rood"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/Sq5vc7GdGnI\/AAAAAAAAD38\/8lpGFfyD9Gg\/s1600-h\/norman+cross.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/Sq5vc7GdGnI\/AAAAAAAAD38\/8lpGFfyD9Gg\/s320\/norman+cross.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>It seemed that I saw a most wondrous tree<\/div>\n<div>born aloft, wound round by light,<\/div>\n<div>brightest of beams. All was that beacon<\/div>\n<div>sprinkled with gold. Gems stood<\/div>\n<div>fair at earth\u2019s corners; there likewise five<\/div>\n<div>shone on the shoulder-span. All there beheld the Angel of God <\/div>\n<div>fair through predestiny. Indeed, that was no wicked one\u2019s gallows,<\/div>\n<div>but holy souls beheld it there,<\/div>\n<div>men over earth, and all this great creation.<\/div>\n<div>Wondrous that victory-beam\u2013and I stained with sins,<\/div>\n<div>with wounds of disgrace. I saw glory\u2019s tree<\/div>\n<div>honored with trappings, shining with joys,<\/div>\n<div>decked with gold; gems had<\/div>\n<div>wrapped that forest tree worthily round.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>From <em>The Dream of the Rood<\/em>. Learn about this beautiful 7th century English poem <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dream_of_the_Rood\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.uca.edu\/jona\/texts\/rood.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed that I saw a most wondrous tree born aloft, wound round by light, brightest of beams. All was that beacon sprinkled with gold. Gems stood fair at earth\u2019s corners; there likewise five shone on the shoulder-span. All there beheld the Angel of God fair through predestiny. Indeed, that was no wicked one\u2019s gallows, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dream of the Rood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It seemed that I saw a most wondrous treeborn aloft, wound round by light,brightest of beams. All was that beaconsprinkled with gold. 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