These heroes twain, these conquerors grand, Who took and ke… - Wace

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These heroes twain, these conquerors grand,
Who took and kept full many a land,
Yet after death, for all their toil
Have each but their own length of soil.

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(c. 1110 – after 1174), sometimes referred to as Robert Wace, was a Medieval Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.

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Cil due vassals, ki tant cunquistrent,
Tant orent terres, è tant pristrent;
Emprès la mort, de lor enor,
N'ont cescuns fors sa lunguor.

All things to their decline do tend,
All falls, expires, comes to its end:
Man dies, iron rusts, wood rots away,
Tower sinks, wall falls, rose has its day.
Horse stumbles, cloth wears out apace,
No work of hands leaves lasting trace.

Who would remember his forbears,
What deeds, what words, what life was theirs,
Must chronicles and annals read
And histories written for his need.

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