Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems :: :: University of Virginia Library

Þu eart frofra fæder and feorhhyrde,
lifes latteow, leohtes wealdend,
asyndrod fram synnum, swa ðin sunu mære
þurh clæne gecynd, cyning ofer ealle,
beald gebletsod, boca lareow,
heah higefrofer and halig gast.

Sicut erat in principio.

Swa wæs on fruman frea mancynnes
ealre worulde wlite and frofer,
clæne and cræftig. Þu gecyddest þæt
þa ðu, ece god, ana gewrohtest
þurh halige miht heofonas and eorðan,
eardas and uplyft and ealle þing.
Þu settest on foldan swyðe feala cynna
and tosyndrodost hig syððon on mænego;
þu gewrohtest, ece god, ealle gesceafta
on syx dagum, and on þone seofoðan þu gerestest.
Þa wæs geforðad þin fægere weorc,
and ðu sunnandæg sylf halgodest
and gemærsodest hine manegum to helpe.
Þone heahan dæg healdað and freoðiaþ
ealle þa ðe cunnon cristene þeawas,
halige heortlufan and ðæs hehstan gebod;

on drihtnes namon se dæg is gewurðod.

Et nunc et semper.

And nu and symble þine soðan weorc
and ðin mycele miht manegum swytelað,
swa þine cræftas heo cyðaþ wide
ofer ealle woruld; ece standeþ
godes handgeweorc, groweð swa ðu hete.
Ealle þe heriað halige dreamas
clænre stefne and cristene bec,
eall middaneard, and we men cweþað
on grunde her: “Gode lof and ðanc,
ece willa, and ðin agen dom!”

Et in secula seculorum.

And on worulda woruld wunað and rixað
cyning innan wuldre and his þa gecorenan,
heahþrymnesse haliges gastes,
wlitige englas and wuldorgyfe,
soðe sibbe, sawla þancung,
modes miltse. Þær is seo mæste lufu;
haligdomes heofonas syndon
þurh þine ecan word æghwær fulle,
swa syndon þine mihta ofer middangeard
swutele and gesyne, þæt ðu hy sylf worhtest.

Amen.

We þæt soðlice secgað ealle:
Þurh clæne gecynd þu eart cyning on riht,

clæne and cræftig. Þu gecyddest þæt
þa ðu, mihtig god, man geworhtest
and him on dydest oruð and sawul,
sealdest word and gewitt and wæstma gecynd,
cyddest þine cræftas. Swylc is Cristes miht!