The Phoenix						Back to lines 501 - 600
	symle in sibbe,				sunnan gelice.
	þær se beorhta beag,				brogden wundrum
	eorcnanstanum,				eadigra gehwam
	hlifað ofer heafde.				Heafelan lixað,
605	þrymme biþeahte.				ðeodnes cynegold
	soðfæstra gehwone				sellic glengeð
	leohte in life,				þær se longa gefea,
608	ece ond edgeong,				æfre ne sweþrað,
	ac hy in wlite wuniað,				wuldre bitolden
610	fægrum frætwum,				mid fæder engla.
611	Ne bið him on þam wicum				wiht to sorge,
	wroht ne weþel				ne gewindagas,
	hungor se hata				ne se hearda þurst,
	yrmþu ne yldo.				Him se æþela cyning
615	forgifeð goda gehwylc.				þær gæsta gedryht
616	hælend hergað				ond heofoncyninges
	meahte mærsiað,				singað metude lof.
618	Swinsað sibgedryht				swega mæste
	hædre ymb þæt halge				heahseld godes,
620	bliþe bletsiað				bregu selestan
621	eadge mid englum,				efenhleoþre þus:
	"Sib si þe, soð god,				ond snyttrucræft,
	ond þe þonc sy				þrymsittendum
	geongra gyfena,				goda gehwylces.
625	Micel, unmæte				mægnes strengðu,
	heah ond halig!				Heofonas sindon
	fægre gefylled,				fæder ælmihtig,
	ealra þrymma þrym,				þines wuldres,
	uppe mid englum				ond on eorðan somod.
630	Gefreoþa usic, frymþa scyppend!				þu eart fæder ælmihtig
	in heannesse,				heofuna waldend."
632	ðus reordiað				ryhtfremmende,
633	manes amerede,				in þære mæran byrig;
	cyneþrym cyþað,				caseres lof
635	singað on swegle				soðfæstra gedryht,
	þam anum is				ece weorðmynd
	forð butan ende.				Næs his frymð æfre,
	eades ongyn.				þeah he on eorþan her
639	þurh cildes had				cenned wære
640	in middangeard,				hwæþre his meahta sped
	heah ofer heofonum				halig wunade,
	dom unbryce.				þeah he deaþes cwealm
	on rode treow				ræfnan sceolde,
	þearlic wite,				he þy þriddan dæge
645	æfter lices hryre				lif eft onfeng
	þurh fæder fultum.				Swa fenix beacnað,
647	geong in geardum,				godbearnes meaht,
	þonne he of ascan				eft onwæcneð
	in lifes lif,				leomum geþungen.
650	Swa se hælend us				helpe gefremede
	þurh his lices gedal,				lif butan ende,
	swa se fugel swetum				his fiþru tu
	ond wynsumum				wyrtum gefylleð,
	fægrum foldwæstmum,				þonne afysed bið.
655	þæt sindon þa word,				swa us gewritu secgað,
	hleoþor haligra,				þe him to heofonum bið,
	to þam mildan gode,				mod afysed
	in dreama dream,				þær hi dryhtne to giefe
	worda ond weorca				wynsumne stenc
660	in þa mæran gesceaft				meotude bringað,
661	in þæt leohte lif.				Sy him lof symle
	þurh woruld worulda,				ond wuldres blæd,
663	ar ond onwald,				in þam uplican
	rodera rice.				He is on ryht cyning
665	middangeardes				ond mægenþrymmes,
666	wuldre biwunden				in þære wlitigan byrig.
667	Hafað us alyfed				lucis auctor
	þæt we motun her				merueri,
	goddædum begietan				gaudia in celo,
670	þær we motun				maxima regna
	secan ond gesittan				sedibus altis,
	lifgan in lisse				lucis et pacis,
	agan eardinga				almæ letitie,
	brucan blæddaga,				blandem et mitem
675	geseon sigora frean				sine fine,
	ond him lof singan				laude perenne,
	eadge mid englum.				Alleluia.