Daniel

Caldea cyning mid cneomagum,

þær medugal wearð mægenes wisa.

Het þam æðelum beran Israela gestreon,

huslfatu halegu, on hand werum,

þa ær Caldeas mid cyneðrymme,

cempan in ceastre, clæne genamon,

gold in Gerusalem, ða hie Iudea

blæd forbræcon billa ecgum,

and þurh hleoðorcyme, herige genamon

beorhte frætwe. ða hie tempel strudon,

Salomanes seld, swiðe gulpon.

ða wearð bliðemod burga aldor,

gealp gramlice gode on andan,

cwæð þæt his hergas hyrran wæron

and mihtigran mannum to friðe

þonne Israela ece drihten.

Him þæt tacen wearð þær he to starude,

egeslic for eorlum innan healle,

þæt he for leodum ligeword gecwæð,

þa þær in egesan engel drihtnes

let his hand cuman in þæt hea seld,

wrat þa in wage worda gerynu,

baswe bocstafas, burhsittendum.

ða wearð folctoga forht on mode,

acul for þam egesan. Geseah he engles hand

in sele writan Sennera wite.

þæt gyddedon gumena mænigeo,

hæleð in healle, hwæt seo hand write

to þam beacne burhsittendum.

Werede comon on þæt wundor seon.

Sohton þa swiðe in sefan gehydum,

hwæt seo hand write haliges gastes.

Ne mihton arædan runcræftige men

engles ærendbec, æðelinga cyn,

oðþæt Daniel com, drihtne gecoren,

snotor and soðfæst, in þæt seld gangan.

ðam wæs on gaste godes cræft micel,

to þam ic georne gefrægn gyfum ceapian

burhge weardas þæt he him bocstafas

arædde and arehte, hwæt seo run bude.

Him æcræftig andswarode,

godes spelboda, gleaw geðances:

"No ic wið feohsceattum ofer folc bere

drihtnes domas, ne ðe dugeðe can,

ac þe unceapunga orlæg secge,

worda gerynu, þa þu wendan ne miht.

þu for anmedlan in æht bere

huslfatu halegu, on hand werum.

On þam ge deoflu drincan ongunnon,

ða ær Israela in æ hæfdon

æt godes earce, oðþæt hie gylp beswac,

windruncen gewit, swa þe wurðan sceal.

No þæt þin aldor æfre wolde

godes goldfatu in gylp beran,

ne ðy hraðor hremde, ðeah ðe here brohte

Israela gestreon in his æhte geweald,

ac þæt oftor gecwæð aldor ðeoda

soðum wordum ofer sin mægen,

siððan him wuldres weard wundor gecyðde,

þæt he wære ana ealra gesceafta

drihten and waldend, se him dom forgeaf,

unscyndne blæd eorðan rices,

and þu lignest nu þæt sie lifgende,

se ofer deoflum dugeþum wealdeð."