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   geongre in geardum, þæt me Gabrihel,

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   heofones heagengel, hælo gebodade.

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   Sægde soðlice þæt me swegles gæst

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   leoman onlyhte, sceolde ic lifes þrym

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   geberan, beorhtne sunu, bearn eacen godes,

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   torhtes tirfruman. Nu ic his tempel eam

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   gefremed butan facne, in me frofre gæst

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   geeardode. Nu þu ealle forlæt

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   sare sorgceare. Saga ecne þonc

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    mærum meotodes sunu þæt ic his modor gewearð,

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    fæmne forð seþeah, ond þu fæder cweden

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    woruldcund bi wene; sceolde witedom

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    in him sylfum beon soðe gefylled."

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    Eala þu soða ond þu sibsuma

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    ealra cyninga cyning, Crist ælmihtig,

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    hu þu ær wære eallum geworden

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    worulde þrymmum mid þinne wuldorfæder

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    cild acenned þurh his cræft ond meaht!

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    Nis ænig nu eorl under lyfte,

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    secg searoþoncol, to þæs swiðe gleaw

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    þe þæt asecgan mæge sundbuendum,

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    areccan mid ryhte, hu þe rodera weard

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    æt frymðe genom him to freobearne.

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    þæt wæs þara þinga þe her þeoda cynn

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    gefrugnen mid folcum æt fruman ærest

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    geworden under wolcnum, þæt witig god,

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    lifes ordfruma, leoht ond þystro

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    gedælde dryhtlice, ond him wæs domes geweald,

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    ond þa wisan abead weoroda ealdor:

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    "Nu sie geworden forþ a to widan feore

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    leoht, lixende gefea, lifgendra gehwam

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    þe in cneorissum cende weorðen."

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    Ond þa sona gelomp, þa hit swa sceolde,

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    leoma leohtade leoda mægþum,

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    torht mid tunglum, æfter þon tida bigong.

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    Sylfa sette þæt þu sunu wære

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    efeneardigende mid þinne engan frean

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    ærþon oht þisses æfre gewurde.

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    þu eart seo snyttro þe þas sidan gesceaft

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    mid þi waldende worhtes ealle.

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    Forþon nis ænig þæs horsc, ne þæs hygecræftig,

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    þe þin fromcyn mæge fira bearnum

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    sweotule geseþan. Cum, nu, sigores weard,

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    meotod moncynnes, ond þine miltse her

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    arfæst ywe! Us is eallum neod

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    þæt we þin medrencynn motan cunnan,

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    ryhtgeryno, nu we areccan ne mægon

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    þæt fædrencynn fier owihte.

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    þu þisne middangeard milde geblissa

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    þurh ðinne hercyme, hælende Crist,

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    ond þa gyldnan geatu, þe in geardagum

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    ful longe ær bilocen stodan,

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    heofona heahfrea, hat ontynan,

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    ond usic þonne gesece þurh þin sylfes gong

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    eaðmod to eorþan. Us is þinra arna þearf!

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    Hafað se awyrgda wulf tostenced,

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    deor dædscua, dryhten, þin eowde,

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    wide towrecene. þæt ðu, waldend, ær

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    blode gebohtes, þæt se bealofulla

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    hyneð heardlice, ond him on hæft nimeð

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    ofer usse nioda lust. Forþon we, nergend, þe

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    biddað geornlice breostgehygdum

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    þæt þu hrædlice helpe gefremme

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    wergum wreccan, þæt se wites bona

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    in helle grund hean gedreose,

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    ond þin hondgeweorc, hæleþa scyppend,

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    mote arisan ond on ryht cuman

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    to þam upcundan æþelan rice,

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    þonan us ær þurh synlust se swearta gæst

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    forteah ond fortylde, þæt we, tires wone,

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    a butan ende sculon ermþu dreogan,

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    butan þu usic þon ofostlicor, ece dryhten,

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    æt þam leodsceaþan, lifgende god,

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    helm alwihta, hreddan wille.

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    Eala þu mæra middangeardes

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    seo clæneste cwen ofer eorþan

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    þara þe gewurde to widan feore,

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    hu þec mid ryhte ealle reordberend

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    hatað ond secgað, hæleð geond foldan,

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    bliþe mode, þæt þu bryd sie

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    þæs selestan swegles bryttan.

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    Swylce þa hyhstan on heofonum eac,

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    Cristes þegnas, cweþað ond singað

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    þæt þu sie hlæfdige halgum meahtum

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    wuldorweorudes, ond worldcundra

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    hada under heofonum, ond helwara.

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    Forþon þu þæt ana ealra monna

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    geþohtest þrymlice, þristhycgende,

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    þæt þu þinne mægðhad meotude brohtes,

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    sealdes butan synnum. Nan swylc ne cwom

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    ænig oþer ofer ealle men,

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    bryd beaga hroden, þe þa beorhtan lac

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    to heofonhame hlutre mode

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    siþþan sende. Forðon heht sigores fruma

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    his heahbodan hider gefleogan

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    of his mægenþrymme ond þe meahta sped

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    snude cyðan, þæt þu sunu dryhtnes

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    þurh clæne gebyrd cennan sceolde

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    monnum to miltse, ond þe, Maria, forð

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     efne unwemme a gehealdan.

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