Christ A, B, C
- 1200
ond eal ða earfeðu þe he fore ældum adreag,
- 1201
forþon þe he wolde þæt we wuldres eard
- 1202
in ecnesse agan mosten?
- 1203
Swa þam bið grorne on þam grimman dæge
- 1204
domes þæs miclan, þam þe dryhtnes sceal,
- 1205
deaðfirenum forden, dolg sceawian,
- 1206
wunde ond wite. On werigum sefan
- 1207
geseoð sorga mæste, hu se sylfa cyning
- 1208
mid sine lichoman lysde of firenum
- 1209
þurh milde mod, þæt hy mostun manweorca
- 1210
tome lifgan, ond tires blæd
- 1211
ecne agan. Hy þæs eðles þonc
- 1212
hyra waldende wita ne cuþon;
- 1213
forþon þær to teonum þa tacen geseoð
- 1214
orgeatu on gode, ungesælge,
- 1215
þonne Crist siteð on his cynestole,
- 1216
on heahsetle, heofonmægna god,
- 1217
fæder ælmihtig. Folca gehwylcum
- 1218
scyppend scinende scrifeð bi gewyrhtum,
- 1219
eall æfter ryhte rodera waldend.
- 1220
ðonne beoð gesomnad on þa swiþran hond
- 1221
þa clænan folc, Criste sylfum
- 1222
gecorene bi cystum, þa ær sinne cwide georne
- 1223
lustum læstun on hyra lifdagum,
- 1224
ond þær womsceaþan on þone wyrsan dæl
- 1225
fore scyppende scyrede weorþað,
- 1226
hateð him gewitan on þa winstran hond,
- 1227
sigora soðcyning, synfulra weorud.
- 1228
þær hy arasade reotað ond beofiað
- 1229
fore frean forhte, swa fule swa gæt,
- 1230
unsyfre folc, arna ne wenað.
- 1231
ðonne bið gæsta dom fore gode sceaden
- 1232
wera cneorissum, swa hi geworhtun ær,
- 1233
þær bið on eadgum eðgesyne
- 1234
þreo tacen somod, þæs þe hi hyra þeodnes wel
- 1235
wordum ond weorcum willan heoldon.
- 1236
An is ærest orgeate þær
- 1237
þæt hy fore leodum leohte blicaþ,
- 1238
blæde ond byrhte ofer burga gesetu.
- 1239
Him on scinað ærgewyrhtu,
- 1240
on sylfra gehwam sunnan beorhtran.
- 1241
Oþer is to eacan ondgete swa some,
- 1242
þæt hy him in wuldre witon waldendes giefe,
- 1243
ond on seoð, eagum to wynne,
- 1244
þæt hi on heofonrice hlutre dreamas
- 1245
eadge mid englum agan motun.
- 1246
ðonne bið þridde, hu on þystra bealo
- 1247
þæt gesælige weorud gesihð þæt fordone
- 1248
sar þrowian, synna to wite,
- 1249
weallendne lig, ond wyrma slite
- 1250
bitrum ceaflum, byrnendra scole.
- 1251
Of þam him aweaxeð wynsum gefea,
- 1252
þonne hi þæt yfel geseoð oðre dreogan,
- 1253
þæt hy þurh miltse meotudes genæson.
- 1254
ðonne hi þy geornor gode þonciað
- 1255
blædes ond blissa þe hy bu geseoð,
- 1256
þæt he hy generede from niðcwale
- 1257
ond eac forgeaf ece dreamas;
- 1258
bið him hel bilocen, heofonrice agiefen.
- 1259
Swa sceal gewrixled þam þe ær wel heoldon
- 1260
þurh modlufan meotudes willan.
- 1261
ðonne bið þam oþrum ungelice
- 1262
willa geworden. Magon weana to fela
- 1263
geseon on him selfum, synne genoge
- 1264
atolearfoða ær gedenra.
- 1265
þær him sorgendum sar oðclifeð,
- 1266
þroht þeodbealu, on þreo healfa.
- 1267
An is þara þæt hy him yrmþa to fela,
- 1268
grim helle fyr, gearo to wite
- 1269
ondweard seoð, on þam hi awo sculon,
- 1270
wræc winnende, wærgðu dreogan.
- 1271
þonne is him oþer earfeþu swa some
- 1272
scyldgum to sconde, þæt hi þær scoma mæste
- 1273
dreogað fordone. On him dryhten gesihð
- 1274
nales feara sum firenbealu laðlic,
- 1275
ond þæt ællbeorhte eac sceawiað
- 1276
heofonengla here, ond hæleþa bearn,
- 1277
ealle eorðbuend ond atol deofol,
- 1278
mircne mægencræft, manwomma gehwone
- 1279
magun þurh þa lichoman, leahtra firene,
- 1280
geseon on þam sawlum. Beoð þa syngan flæsc
- 1281
scandum þurhwaden swa þæt scire glæs,
- 1282
þæt mon yþæst mæg eall þurhwlitan.
- 1283
ðonne bið þæt þridde þearfendum sorg,
- 1284
cwiþende cearo, þæt hy on þa clænan seoð,
- 1285
hu hi fore goddædum glade blissiað,
- 1286
þa hy, unsælge, ær forhogdun
- 1287
to donne þonne him dagas læstun;
- 1288
ond be hyra weorcum wepende sar
- 1289
þæt hi ær freolice fremedon unryht.
- 1290
Geseoð hi þa betran blæde scinan;
- 1291
ne bið him hyra yrmðu an to wite,
- 1292
ac þara oþerra ead to sorgum,
- 1293
þæs þe hy swa fægre gefean on fyrndagum
- 1294
ond swa ænlice anforletun,
- 1295
þurh leaslice lices wynne,
- 1296
earges flæschoman idelne lust.
- 1297
þær hi ascamode, scondum gedreahte,
- 1298
swiciað on swiman; synbyrþenne,
- 1299
firenweorc berað, on þæt þa folc seoð.
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