Christ and Satan
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þusend engla, gif þider moton,
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and þæt on eorðan ær gewyrcað.
- 302
Forþon se bið eadig se ðe æfre wile
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man oferhycgen, meotode cweman,
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synne adwæscan. Swa he sylfa cwæð:
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"Soðfæste men, sunnan gelice,
- 306
fægre gefrætewod in heora fæder rice
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scinað in sceldbyrig." þær heo sceppend seolf
- 308
friðe befæðmeð, fæder mancynnes,
- 309
ahefeð holdlice in heofones leoht,
- 310
þær heo mid wuldorcyninge wunian moton
- 311
awa to aldre,
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agan dreama dream mid drihtne gode,
- 313
a to worulde a buton ende.
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Eala hwæt! Se awyrgda wraðe geþohte
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þæt he heofencyninge heran ne wolde,
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fæder frefergendum. Flor attre weol,
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hat under hæftum; hreopan deofla,
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wide geond windsele wean cwanedon,
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man and morður. Wæs seo menego þær
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swylce onæled; wæs þæt eall full strong,
- 321
þonne wæs heora aldor, þe ðær ærest com
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forð on feþan, fæste gebunden
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fyre and lige. þæt wæs fæstlic þreat;
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ec sceoldon his þegnas þær gewunian
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atolan eðles, nalles up þanon
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geheran in heofonum haligne dream,
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þær heo oft fægerne folgað hæfdon
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uppe mid englum. Wæron þa alles þæs
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goda lease, ah nymþe gryndes ad
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wunian ne moten and þone werigan sele
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þær is wom and wop wide gehered,
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and gristbitungc and gnornungc mecga.
- 333
Nabbað he to hyhte nymþe cyle and fyr,
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wean and witu and wyrma þreat,
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dracan and næddran and þone dimman ham.
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Forðon mihte geheran, se ðe æt hylle wæs
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twelf milum neh, þæt ðær wæs toða geheaw,
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hlude and geomre. Godes andsacan
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hweorfan geond helle hate onæled
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ufan and utan (him wæs æghwær wa),
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witum werige, wuldres bescyrede,
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dreamum bedælde. Heofon deop gehygd,
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þa heo on heofonum ham staðelodon,
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þæt hie woldon benæman nergendne Crist
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rodera rices, ah he on riht geheold
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hired heofona and þæt halige seld.
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Nis nænig swa snotor ne swa cræftig,
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ne þæs swa gleaw, nymþe god seolfa,
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þæt asecgan mæge swegles leoman,
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hu scima þær scineð ymbutan
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meotodes mihte, geond þæt mære cynn,
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þær habbað englas eadigne dream,
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sanctas singað (þæt is se seolfa) for god.
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þonne beoð þa eadigan þe of eorðan cumað,
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bringað to bearme blostman stences,
- 356
wyrte wynsume (þæt synd word godes),
- 357
þonne hie befæðmeð fæder mancynnes,
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and hie gesegnað mid his swiðran hond,
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lædeð to lihte, þær hi lif agon
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a to aldre, uplicne ham,
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byrhtne burhstyde. Blæd bið æghwæm
- 362
þæm ðe hælende heran þenceð,
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and wel is þam ðe þæt wyrcan mot.
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Wæs þæt encgelcyn ær genemned,
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Lucifer haten, leohtberende,
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on geardagum in godes rice.
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þa he in wuldre wrohte onstalde
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þæt he oferhyda agan wolde.
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þa Satanus swearte geþohte
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þæt he wolde on heofonum hehseld wyrcan
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uppe mid þam ecan. þæt wæs ealdor heora,
- 372
yfeles ordfruma. Him þæt eft gehreaw,
- 373
þa he to helle hnigan sceolde,
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and his hired mid hine, in hynðo geglidan,
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nergendes nið, and no seoððan
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þæt hi mosten in þone ecan andwlitan seon
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buton ende. þa him egsa becom,
- 378
dyne for deman, þa he duru in helle
- 379
bræc and begde. Blis wearð monnum
- 380
þa hi hælendes heafod gesawon.
- 381
þonne wæs þam atolan þe we ær nemdon
- 382
þa wæron mid egsan ealle afyrhte,
- 383
wide geond windsele wordum mændon:
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"þis is stronglic, nu þes storm becom,
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þegen mid þreate, þeoden engla.
- 386
Him beforan fereð fægere leoht
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þonne we æfre ær eagum gesawon,
- 388
buton þa we mid englum uppe wæron.
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Wile nu ure witu þurh his wuldres cræft
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eall toweorpan. Nu ðes egsa com,
- 391
dyne for drihtne, sceal þes dreorga heap
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ungeara nu atol þrowian.
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Hit is se seolfa sunu waldendes,
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engla drihten. Wile uppe heonan
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sawla lædan, and we seoððan a
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þæs yrreweorces henðo geþoliað."
- 397
Hwearf þa to helle hæleða bearnum,
- 398
meotod þurh mihte; wolde manna rim,
- 399
fela þusenda, forð gelædan
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