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A Summons to Prayer

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 31 sections

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   þænne gemiltsað þe, N., mundum qui regit,

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   ðeoda þrymcyningc thronum sedentem

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   a butan ende

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   saule þinre

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   Geunne þe on life auctor pacis

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   sibbe gesælða, salus mundi,

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   metod se mæra magna uirtute,

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   and se soðfæsta summi filius

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   fo on fultum, factor cosmi,

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    se of æþelre wæs uirginis partu

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    clæne acenned Christus in orbem,

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    metod þurh Marian, mundi redemptor,

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    and þurh þæne halgan gast. Uoca frequenter

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    bide helpes hine, clemens deus,

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    se onsended wæs summo de throno

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    and þære clænan clara uoce

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    þa gebyrd bodade bona uoluntate

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    þæt heo scolde cennan Christum regem,

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    ealra cyninga cyningc, casta uiuendo.

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    and þu þa soðfæstan supplex rogo,

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    fultumes bidde friclo uirginem almum,

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    and þær æfter to omnes sancti

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    bliðmod bidde, beatus et iustus,

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    þæt hi ealle þe unica uoce

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    þingian to þeodne thronum regentem,

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    ecum drihtne, alta polorum,

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    þæt he þine saule, summus iudex,

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    onfo freolice, factor aeternus,

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    and he gelæde luce perhennem,

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    þær eadige anime sancte

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    rice restað regna caelorum.

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