The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
A Summons to Prayer
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
þænne gemiltsað þe, N., mundum
qui regit,
ðeoda þrymcyningc thronum sedentem
a butan ende
saule þinre
5
Geunne þe on life auctor pacis
sibbe gesælða, salus mundi,
metod se mæra magna uirtute,
and se soðfæsta summi filius
fo on fultum, factor cosmi,
10
se of æþelre wæs uirginis partu
clæne acenned Christus in orbem,
metod þurh Marian, mundi redemptor,
and þurh þæne halgan gast. Uoca
frequenter
bide helpes hine, clemens deus,
15
se onsended wæs summo de throno
and þære clænan clara uoce
þa gebyrd bodade
bona uoluntate
þæt heo scolde cennan Christum regem,
ealra cyninga cyningc, casta uiuendo.
20
and þu þa soðfæstan supplex
rogo,
fultumes bidde friclo uirginem almum,
and þær æfter to omnes sancti
bliðmod bidde, beatus et iustus,
þæt hi ealle þe unica uoce
25
þingian to þeodne thronum regentem,
ecum drihtne, alta polorum,
þæt he þine saule, summus iudex,
onfo freolice, factor aeternus,
and he gelæde luce perhennem,
30
þær eadige anime sancte
rice restað regna caelorum.
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