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The Phoenix

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 677 sections

1. 600

   symle in sibbe, sunnan gelice.

2. 601

   þær se beorhta beag, brogden wundrum

3. 602

   eorcnanstanum, eadigra gehwam

4. 603

   hlifað ofer heafde. Heafelan lixað,

5. 604

   þrymme biþeahte. ðeodnes cynegold

6. 605

   soðfæstra gehwone sellic glengeð

7. 606

   leohte in life, þær se longa gefea,

8. 607

   ece ond edgeong, æfre ne sweþrað,

9. 608

   ac hy in wlite wuniað, wuldre bitolden

10. 609

    fægrum frætwum, mid fæder engla.

11. 610

    Ne bið him on þam wicum wiht to sorge,

12. 611

    wroht ne weþel ne gewindagas,

13. 612

    hungor se hata ne se hearda þurst,

14. 613

    yrmþu ne yldo. Him se æþela cyning

15. 614

    forgifeð goda gehwylc. þær gæsta gedryht

16. 615

    hælend hergað ond heofoncyninges

17. 616

    meahte mærsiað, singað metude lof.

18. 617

    Swinsað sibgedryht swega mæste

19. 618

    hædre ymb þæt halge heahseld godes,

20. 619

    bliþe bletsiað bregu selestan

21. 620

    eadge mid englum, efenhleoþre þus:

22. 621

    "Sib si þe, soð god, ond snyttrucræft,

23. 622

    ond þe þonc sy þrymsittendum

24. 623

    geongra gyfena, goda gehwylces.

25. 624

    Micel, unmæte mægnes strengðu,

26. 625

    heah ond halig! Heofonas sindon

27. 626

    fægre gefylled, fæder ælmihtig,

28. 627

    ealra þrymma þrym, þines wuldres,

29. 628

    uppe mid englum ond on eorðan somod.

30. 629

    Gefreoþa usic, frymþa scyppend! þu eart fæder ælmihtig

31. 630

    in heannesse, heofuna waldend."

32. 631

    ðus reordiað ryhtfremmende,

33. 632

    manes amerede, in þære mæran byrig;

34. 633

    cyneþrym cyþað, caseres lof

35. 634

    singað on swegle soðfæstra gedryht,

36. 635

    þam anum is ece weorðmynd

37. 636

    forð butan ende. Næs his frymð æfre,

38. 637

    eades ongyn. þeah he on eorþan her

39. 638

    þurh cildes had cenned wære

40. 639

    in middangeard, hwæþre his meahta sped

41. 640

    heah ofer heofonum halig wunade,

42. 641

    dom unbryce. þeah he deaþes cwealm

43. 642

    on rode treow ræfnan sceolde,

44. 643

    þearlic wite, he þy þriddan dæge

45. 644

    æfter lices hryre lif eft onfeng

46. 645

    þurh fæder fultum. Swa fenix beacnað,

47. 646

    geong in geardum, godbearnes meaht,

48. 647

    þonne he of ascan eft onwæcneð

49. 648

    in lifes lif, leomum geþungen.

50. 649

    Swa se hælend us helpe gefremede

51. 650

    þurh his lices gedal, lif butan ende,

52. 651

    swa se fugel swetum his fiþru tu

53. 652

    ond wynsumum wyrtum gefylleð,

54. 653

    fægrum foldwæstmum, þonne afysed bið.

55. 654

    þæt sindon þa word, swa us gewritu secgað,

56. 655

    hleoþor haligra, þe him to heofonum bið,

57. 656

    to þam mildan gode, mod afysed

58. 657

    in dreama dream, þær hi dryhtne to giefe

59. 658

    worda ond weorca wynsumne stenc

60. 659

    in þa mæran gesceaft meotude bringað,

61. 660

    in þæt leohte lif. Sy him lof symle

62. 661

    þurh woruld worulda, ond wuldres blæd,

63. 662

    ar ond onwald, in þam uplican

64. 663

    rodera rice. He is on ryht cyning

65. 664

    middangeardes ond mægenþrymmes,

66. 665

    wuldre biwunden in þære wlitigan byrig.

67. 666

    Hafað us alyfed lucis auctor

68. 667

    þæt we motun her merueri,

69. 668

    goddædum begietan gaudia in celo,

70. 669

    þær we motun maxima regna

71. 670

    secan ond gesittan sedibus altis,

72. 671

    lifgan in lisse lucis et pacis,

73. 672

    agan eardinga almæ letitie,

74. 673

    brucan blæddaga, blandem et mitem

75. 674

    geseon sigora frean sine fine,

76. 675

    ond him lof singan laude perenne,

77. 676

    eadge mid englum. Alleluia.

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