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Quotation from The Dream of the Rood by Anonymous
“A rood was I upreared; I raised the mighty King, The Lord of Heaven; I durst not bend me.”
The Dream of the Rood, Lines 44-45, trans. James M. Garnett (1889)
The cross names itself and its painful duty to hold up its Lord.
Citation: "A rood was I upreared; I raised the mighty King, The Lord of Heaven; I durst not bend me." — Anonymous, The Dream of the Rood, Lines 44-45, trans. James M. Garnett (1889). (id the-dream-of-the-rood-q3)
Portrait: The Dream of the Rood, On Being, Public domain.
