# Poem on a Bridge at Winchester built by Bishop Swithun Hanc portam presens cernis quicumque uiator deuotas effunde preces ad celsitonantem pro Christi famulo Swiðun, antistite quondam, per cuius summam cum sollicitudine curam est huius pontis constructa operatio pulchra ad Christi laudem, Wentane urbisque decorem, sol octingentos cum rite reuolueret annos quinquaginta nouem replicaret et insuper annos, incarnata fuit postquam miseratio Christi; tunc erat et uertens indictio septima cursum. [‘You, wayfarer, who here gaze upon this gate, pour forth your devout prayers to Omnipotent God on behalf of Christ’s servant Swithun, formerly a bishop, through whose great care and concern the lovely structure of the bridge was built, for the praise of Christ and adornment of the city of Winchester, when the sun had turned eight hundred years and fifty-nine more in addition, after Christ in his mercy was made incarnate; at that time the seventh indiction was in course’ Locke]