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Azarias

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 191 sections

1. 100

   þe þas werþeoda weardum healdað.

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   Deop dryhtnes bibod drugon hi þæt longe.

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   Ond þec, Crist cyning, ceolas weorðian,

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   fæder, forst ond snaw, folca waldend,

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   winterbitera weder ond wolcna genipu,

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   ond þec liexende ligetta hergen,

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   blace, breahtumhwate, brytenrices weard,

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   dyrne dryhten. A þin dom sy

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   god ond genge. þu þæs geornlice

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    wyrcest, wuldorcyning. Wæstmum herge,

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    bletsien bledum, ond þin blæd wese

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    a forð ece, ælmihtig god.

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    Wesað ond weaxað ealle werþeode,

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    lifgað bi þam lissum þe us se leofa cyning,

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    ece dryhten, ær gesette

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    sinum bearnum to brice, bremen dryhten.

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    Ond þec, halga god, hea duna

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    geond middangeard miltsum hergen,

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    fæger folde ond fæder rice.

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    Forðon waldend scop wudige moras,

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    lofe leanige leohtes hyrde.

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    Bletsige þec, soðfæst cyning, sæs ond wætra

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    hea holmas, haligne dryhten,

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    domlice deop wæter; ond dryhtnes bibod

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    geofonfloda gehwylc georne bihealdeð,

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    þonne merestreamas meotudes ræswum

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    wæter onwealcað. Witon ealdgecynd

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    þæt ær gescop ece dryhten

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    lagufloda bigong, leohtes hyrde,

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    on þam wuniað widferende

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    siðe on sunde seldlicra fela.

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    Bletsien þec þa ealle, ece dryhten,

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    þurh þinne willan, wuldorfæst cyning,

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    ond þec ealle æsprynge, ece dryhten,

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    heanne hergen. Ful oft þu hluttor lætest

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    wæter wynlico to woruldhyhte

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    of clife clænum. þæt us se cyning gescop

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    monnum to miltse ond to mægeneacan.

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    Bletsien þec, bilwit fæder,

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    fiscas ond fuglas, felameahtigne,

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    ealle þa þe onhrerað hreo wægas

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    on þam bradan brime, bremen dryhten,

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    hergen haligne, ond heofonfuglas,

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    þa þe lacende geond lyft farað.

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    Bletsien þec, dryhten, deor ond nyten.

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    Meotud monna bearn miltsum hergen

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    ond ecne god, Israhela cynn.

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    Bletsien þe þine sacerdas, soðfæst cyning,

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    milde mæsseras mærne dryhten,

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    ond þine þeowas, ðeoda hyrde,

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    swylce haligra hluttre saule,

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    ond, ece god, eaðmodheorte.

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    Nu þec Ananias ond Azarias

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    ond Misahel, meotud, miltsum hergað.

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    Nu we geonge þry god bletsiað,

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    felameahtigne fæder in heofonum,

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    þone soðan sunu ond þone sigefæstan gæst.

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    Forþon us onsende sigora waldend

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    engel to are, se þe us bearg

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    fyr ond feondas, ond mid fiþrum bewreah

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    wið brynebrogan." Breahtmum hwurfun

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    ymb þæt hate hus hæðne leode,

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    ða þæt ongeaton godes ondsacan

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    þæt hi ne meahtan, ne meotod wolde,

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    acwellan cnyhta æ, ac hy Crist scilde.

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    Hwearf þa to healle, swa he hraþost meahte,

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    eorl acolmod, þæt he ofer his ealdre gestod.

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    Abead þa for þære duguðe deop ærende,

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    haligra gehyld, (hlyst wæs þær inne),

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    gromhydig guma: "þæt ic geare wiste,

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    þæt we III hæfdon, þeoda wisa,

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    geonge cniehtas, for gæstlufan

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    gebunden to bæle in byrnendes

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    fyres leoman. Nu ic þær IIII men

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    seo to soðe, nales me sylfa gerad.

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    Hweorfað nu æfter heorðe, nængum hat sceþeð,

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    ofnes æled, ac him is engel mid,

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    hafað beorhtne blæd; ne mæg him bryne sceþþan

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    wlitigne wuldorhoman." ða þam wordum swealg

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    brego Caldea, gewat þa to þam bryne gongan

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    anhydig eorl, þæt he ofer þam ade gestod.

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    Het þa of þam lige lifgende bearn

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    Nabocodonossor near ætgongan.

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    Ne forhogodon þæt þa halgan, siþþan hi hwætmode

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    woruldcyninges weorn gehyrdon,

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    ac eodon of þam fyre, feorh unwemme,

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    wuldre gewlitegad, swa hyra wædum ne scod

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    gifre gleda nið, ac hi mid gæstlufan

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    synne geswencton ond gesigefæston,

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    modum gleawe, in monþeawum,

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    þurh foreþoncas fyr gedygdon.

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