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   and heofonfugla. Inc is halig feoh

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   and wilde deor on geweald geseald,

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   and lifigende, ða ðe land tredað,

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   feorheaceno cynn, ða ðe flod wecceð

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   geond hronrade. Inc hyrað eall."

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   þa sceawode scyppend ure

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   his weorca wlite and his wæstma blæd,

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   niwra gesceafta. Neorxnawong stod

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   god and gastlic, gifena gefylled

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    fremum forðweardum. Fægere leohte

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    þæt liðe land lago yrnende,

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    wylleburne. Nalles wolcnu ða giet

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    ofer rumne grund regnas bæron,

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    wann mid winde, hwæðre wæstmum stod

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    folde gefrætwod. Heoldon forðryne

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    eastreamas heora æðele feower

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    of þam niwan neorxnawonge.

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    þa wæron adælede drihtnes mihtum

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    ealle of anum, þa he þas eorðan gesceop,

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    wætre wlitebeorhtum, and on woruld sende.

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    þæra anne hatað ylde, eorðbuende,

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    Fison folcweras; se foldan dæl

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    brade bebugeð beorhtum streamum

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    Hebeleac utan. On þære eðyltyrf

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    niððas findað nean and feorran

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    gold and gymcynn, gumþeoda bearn,

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    ða selestan, þæs þe us secgað bec.

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    þonne seo æftre Ethiopia

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    land and liodgeard beligeð uton,

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    ginne rice, þære is Geon noma.

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    þridda is Tigris, seo wið þeodscipe,

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    ea inflede, Assirie belið.

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    Swilce is seo feorðe, þa nu geond folc monig

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    weras Eufraten wide nemnað.

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    "ac niotað inc þæs oðres ealles, forlætað þone ænne beam,

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    wariað inc wið þone wæstm. Ne wyrð inc wilna gæd."

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    Hnigon þa mid heafdum heofoncyninge

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    georne togenes and sædon ealles þanc,

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    lista and þara lara. He let heo þæt land buan,

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    hwærf him þa to heofenum halig drihten,

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    stiðferhð cyning. Stod his handgeweorc

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    somod on sande, nyston sorga wiht

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    to begrornianne, butan heo godes willan

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    lengest læsten. Heo wæron leof gode

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    ðenden heo his halige word healdan woldon.

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    Hæfde se alwalda engelcynna

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    þurh handmægen, halig drihten,

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    tene getrimede, þæm he getruwode wel

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    þæt hie his giongorscipe fyligan wolden,

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    wyrcean his willan, forþon he him gewit forgeaf

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    and mid his handum gesceop, halig drihten.

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    Gesett hæfde he hie swa gesæliglice, ænne hæfde he swa swiðne geworhtne,

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    swa mihtigne on his modgeþohte, he let hine swa micles wealdan,

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    hehstne to him on heofona rice, hæfde he hine swa hwitne geworhtne,

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    swa wynlic wæs his wæstm on heofonum þæt him com from weroda drihtne,

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    gelic wæs he þam leohtum steorrum. Lof sceolde he drihtnes wyrcean,

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    dyran sceolde he his dreamas on heofonum, and sceolde his drihtne þancian

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    þæs leanes þe he him on þam leohte gescerede þonne læte he his hine lange wealdan.

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    Ac he awende hit him to wyrsan þinge, ongan him winn up ahebban

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    wið þone hehstan heofnes waldend, þe siteð on þam halgan stole.

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    Deore wæs he drihtne urum; ne mihte him bedyrned weorðan

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    þæt his engyl ongan ofermod wesan,

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    ahof hine wið his hearran, sohte hetespræce,

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    gylpword ongean, nolde gode þeowian,

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    cwæð þæt his lic wære leoht and scene,

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    hwit and hiowbeorht. Ne meahte he æt his hige findan

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    þæt he gode wolde geongerdome,

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    þeodne þeowian. þuhte him sylfum

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    þæt he mægyn and cræft maran hæfde

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    þonne se halga god habban mihte

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    folcgestælna. Feala worda gespæc

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    se engel ofermodes. þohte þurh his anes cræft

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    hu he him strenglicran stol geworhte,

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    heahran on heofonum; cwæð þæt hine his hige speone

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    þæt he west and norð wyrcean ongunne,

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    trymede getimbro; cwæð him tweo þuhte

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    þæt he gode wolde geongra weorðan.

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    "Hwæt sceal ic winnan?" cwæð he. "Nis me wihtæ þearf

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    hearran to habbanne. Ic mæg mid handum swa fela

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    wundra gewyrcean. Ic hæbbe geweald micel

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    to gyrwanne godlecran stol,

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    hearran on heofne. Hwy sceal ic æfter his hyldo ðeowian,

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    bugan him swilces geongordomes? Ic mæg wesan god swa he.

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    Bigstandað me strange geneatas, þa ne willað me æt þam striðe geswican,

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    hæleþas heardmode. Hie habbað me to hearran gecorene,

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    rofe rincas; mid swilcum mæg man ræd geþencean,

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    fon mid swilcum folcgesteallan. Frynd synd hie mine georne,

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    holde on hyra hygesceaftum. Ic mæg hyra hearra wesan,

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    rædan on þis rice. Swa me þæt riht ne þinceð,

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    þæt ic oleccan awiht þurfe

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    gode æfter gode ænegum. Ne wille ic leng his geongra wurþan."

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    þa hit se allwalda eall gehyrde,

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    þæt his engyl ongan ofermede micel

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    ahebban wið his hearran and spræc healic word

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    dollice wið drihten sinne, sceolde he þa dæd ongyldan,

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    worc þæs gewinnes gedælan, and sceolde his wite habban,

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    ealra morðra mæst. Swa deð monna gehwilc

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    þe wið his waldend winnan ongynneð

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    mid mane wið þone mæran drihten. þa wearð se mihtiga gebolgen,

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     hehsta heofones waldend, wearp hine of þan hean stole.

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