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Uton we hycgan hwær we ham agen,
ond þonne geþencan hu we þider cumen;
ond we þonne eac tilien þæt we to moten.

- Anonymous.

(Let us consider where our true home is;
and then let us think how to come thither;
and then also strive that we indeed come there.
[translation: J. Glenn])