The Judgment Day II University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.6.17 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Poems The Judgment Day II
hwæt ic ana sæt innan bearwe mid helme beðeht holte tomiddes ðær ða wæterburnan swegdon and urnon on middan gehæge eal swa ic secge eac ðær wynwyrta weoxon and bleowon innon ðam gemonge on ænlicum wonge and ða wudubeamas wagedon and swegdon ðurh winda gryre wolcn wæs gehrered and min earme mod eal wæs gedrefed ða ic færinga forht and unrot ðas unhyrlican fers onhefde mid sange eall swylce ðu cwæde synna gemunde lifes leahtra and ða langan tid ðæs dimman cyme deaðes on eorðan ic ondræde me eac dom ðone miclan for mandædum minum on eorðan and ðæt ece ic eac yrre ondræde me and synfulra gehwam æt sylfum gode and hu mihtig frea eall manna cynn todæleð and todemeð ðurh his dihlan miht ic gemunde eac mærðe drihtnes and ðara haligra on heofonan rice swylce earmsceapenra yfel and witu ic gemunde ðis mid me and ic mearn swiðe and ic murcnigende cwæð mode gedrefed nu ic eow æddran ealle bidde ðæt ge wylspringas wel ontynan hate of hleorum recene to tearum ðænne ic synful slea swiðe mid fyste breost mine beate on gebedstowe and minne lichaman lecge on eorðan and geearnade sar ealle ic gecige ic bidde eow benum nu-ða ðæt ge ne wandian wiht for tearum ac dreorige hleor dreccað mid wope and sealtum dropum sona ofergeotað and geopeniað man ecum drihtne ne ðær owiht inne ne belife on heortscræfe heanra gylta ðæt hit ne sy dægcuð ðæt ðæt dihle wæs openum wordum eall abæred breostes and tungan and flæsces swa some ðis is an hæl earmre sauwle and ðam sorgiendum selest hihta ðæt he wunda her wope gecyðe uplicum læce se ana mæg aglidene mod gode gehælan and ræplingas recene onbindan ne mid swiðran his swyðe nele brysan wanhydige mod wealdend engla ne ðone wlacan smocan waces fleaxes wyle waldend crist wætere gedwæscan hu ne gesceop ðe se scaða scearplice bysne ðe mid criste wæs cwylmed on rode hu micel forstent and hu mære is seo soðe hreow synna and gylta se sceaða wæs on rode scyldig and manful mid undædum eall gesymed he drihtene swa ðeah deaðe gehende his bena bebead breostgehigdum he mid lyt wordum ac geleaffullum his hæle begeat and help recene and in gefor ða ænlican geatu neorxnawonges mid nerigende ic acsige ðe la earme geðanc hwi latast ðu swa lange ðæt ðu ðe læce ne cyðst oððe hwi swigast ðu synnigu tunge nu ðu forgifnesse hæfst gearugne timan nu ðe ælmihtig earum atihtum heofonrices weard gehyreð mid lustum ac se dæg cymeð ðonne demeð god eorðan ymbhwyrft ðu ana scealt gyldan scad wordum wið scyppend god and ðam rican frean riht agyldan ic lære ðæt ðu beo hrædra mid hreowlicum tearum and ðæt yrre forfoh eces deman hwæt ligst ðu on horwe leahtrum afylled flæsc mid synnum hwi ne feormast ðu mid teara gyte torne synne hwi ne bidst ðu ðe beðunga and plaster lifes læcedomes æt lifes frean nu ðu scealt greotan tearas geotan ða hwile tima sy and tid wopes nu is halwende ðæt man her wepe and dædbote do drihtne to willan glæd bið se godes sunu gif ðu gnorn ðrowast and ðe sylfum demst for synnum on eorðan ne heofenes god henða and gyltas ofer ænne syð wrecan wile ænigum men ne scealt ðu forhyccan heaf and wopas and forgifnesse gearugne timan gemyne eac on mode hu micel is ðæt wite ðe ðara earmra byð for ærdædum oððe hu egeslice and hu andrysne heahðrymme cyningc her wile deman anra gehwylcum be ærdædum oððe hwylce forebeacn feran onginnað and cristes cyme cyðað on eorðan eall eorðe bifað eac swa ða duna dreosað and hreosað and beorga hliðu bugað and myltað and se egeslica sweg ungerydre sæ eall manna mod miclum gedrefeð eal bið eac upheofon sweart and gesworcen swiðe geðuxsað deorc and dimhiw and dwolma sweart ðonne stedelease steorran hreosað and seo sunne forswyrcð sona on morgen ne se mona næfð nanre mihte wiht ðæt he ðære nihte genipu mæge flecgan eac ðonne cumað hider ufon of heofone deaðbeacnigende tacn bregað ða earman ðonne cumað upplice eoredheapas stiðmægen astyred styllað embutan eal engla werod ecne behlænað ðone mæran metod mihte and ðrymme sitt ðonne sigelbeorht swegles brytta on heahsetle helme beweorðod we beoð færinga him beforan brohte æghwanum cumene to his ansyne ðæt gehwylc underfo dom be his dædum æt drihtne sylfum ic bidde man ðæt ðu gemune hu micel bið se broga beforan domsetle drihtnes ðænne stent hergea mæst heortleas and earh amasod and amarod mihtleas afæred ðænne samod becumað of swegles hleo eall engla werod ecne ymtrymmað ðænne bið geban micel and aboden ðider eal adames cnosl eorðbuendra ðe on foldan wearð feded æfre oððe modar gebær to manlican oððe ða ðe wæron oððe woldon beon oððe towearde geteald wæron awiht ðonne eallum beoð ealra gesweotolude digle geðancas on ðære dægtide eal ðæt seo heorte hearmes geðohte oððe seo tunge to teonan geclypede oððe mannes hand manes gefremede on ðystrum scræfum ðinga on eorðan eal ðæt hwæne sceamode scylda on worulde ðæt he ænigum men ypte oððe cyðde ðonne bið eallum open ætsomne gelice alyfed ðæt man lange hæl ufenan eall ðis eac byð gefylled eal uplic lyft ættrenum lige færð fyr ofer eall ne byð ðær nan foresteal ne him man na ne mæg miht forwyrnan eal ðæt us ðincð æmtig eahgemearces under roderes ryne readum lige bið emnes mid ðy eal gefylled ðonne fyren lig blaweð and braslað read and reaðe ræsct and efesteð hu he synfullum susle gefremme ne se wrecenda bryne wile forbugan oððe ænigum ðær are gefremman buton he horwum sy her afeormad and ðonne ðider cume ðearle aclænsad ðonne fela mægða folca unrim heora sinnigan breost swiðlice beatað forhte mid fyste for fyrenlustum ðær beoð ðearfan and ðeodcyningas earm and eadig ealle beoð afæred ðær hæfð ane lage earm and se welega forðon hi habbað ege ealle ætsomne ðæt reðe flod ræscet fyre and biterlice bærnð ða earman saula and heora heortan horxlice wyrmas synscyldigra ceorfað and slitað ne mæg ðær æni man be agnum gewyrhtum gedyrstig wesan deman gehende ac ealle ðurhyrnð oga ætsomne breostgehyda and se bitera wop and ðær stænt astifad stane gelicast eal arleas heap yfeles on wenan hwæt dest ðu la flæsc hwæt dreogest ðu nu hwæt miht ðu on ða tid ðearfe gewepan wa ðe nu ðu ðe ðeowast ðissere worulde and her glæd leofast on galnysse and ðe mid stiðum astyrest sticelum ðæs gælsan hwi ne forhtas ðu fyrene egsan and ðe sylfum ondræd swiðlice witu ða deoflum geo drihten geteode awyrgedum gastum weana to leane ða oferswiðað sefan and spræce manna gehwylces for micelnysse nænig spræc mæg beon spellum areccan ænegum on eorðan earmlice witu fulle stowa fyres on grunde ðe wæs in grimmum susle on helle ðær synt to sorge ætsomne gemenged se ðrosma lig and se ðrece gicela swiðe hat and ceald helle tomiddes hwilum ðær eagan ungemetum wepað for ðæs ofnes bryne eal he is bealuwes full hwilum eac ða teð for miclum cyle manna ðær gryrrað ðis atule gewrixl earmsceapene men on worulda woruld wendað ðær inne betwyx forsworcenum sweartum nihtum and weallendes pices wean and ðrosme ðær nan stefn styreð butan stearcheard wop and wanung nawiht elles ne bið ðær ansyn gesewen ænigre wihte butan ðara cwelra ðe cwylmað ða earman ne bið ðær inne aht gemeted butan lig and cyle and laðlic ful hy mid nosan ne magon naht geswæccan butan unstences ormætnesse ðær beoð ða wanigendan welras gefylde ligspiwelum bryne laðlices fyres and hy wælgrimme wyrmas slitað and heora ban gnagað brynigum tuxlum ufenon eal ðis bið ðæt earme breost mid bitere care breged and swenced for hwi fyrngende flæsc on ðas frecnan tid hym selfum swa fela synna geworhte ðæt hit on cweartern cwylmed wurde ðær ða atelan synd ecan witu ðær leohtes ne leoht lytel sperca earmum ænig ne ðær arfæstnes ne sib ne hopa ne swige gegladað ne ðara wependra worn wihte flyhð frofor aweg ne bið ðær fultum nan ðæt wið ða biteran ðing gebeorh mæge fremman ne bið ðær ansyn gemet ænigre blisse ac ðær bið angryslic ege and fyrhtu and sari mod swiðlic gristbigtung ðær bið unrotnes æghwær wælhreow adl and yrre and æmelnes and ðær synnge eac sauwle on lige on blindum scræfe byrnað and yrnað ðonne deriende gedwinað heonone ðysse worulde gefean gewitað mid ealle ðonne druncennes gedwineð mid wistum and hleahter and plega hleapað ætsomne and wrænnes eac gewiteð heonone and fæsthafolnes feor gewiteð uncyst onweg and ælc gælsa scyldig scyndan on sceade ðonne and se earma flyhð uncræftiga slæp sleac mid sluman slincan on hinder ðonne blindum beseah biterum ligum earme on ende ðæt unalyfed is nu leofest on life lað bið ðænne and ðæt werige mod wendað ða gyltas swiðe mid sorgum and mid sargunge eala se bið gesælig and ofersælig and on worulda woruld wihta gesæligost se ðe mid gesyntum swylce cwyldas and witu mæg wel forbugon and samod bliðe on woruld ealle his ðeodne geðeon and ðonne mot habban heofonrice ðæt is hihta mæst ðær niht ne genimð næfre ðeostrum ðæs heofenlican leohtes sciman ne cymð ðær sorh ne sar ne geswenced yld ne ðær ænig geswinc æfre gelimpeð oððe hunger oððe ðurst oððe heanlic slæp ne bið ðær fefur ne adl ne færlic cwyld nanes liges gebrasl ne se laðlica cyle nis ðær unrotnes ne ðær æmelnys ne hryre ne caru ne hreoh tintrega ne bið ðær liget ne laðlic storm winter ne ðunerrad ne wiht cealdes ne ðær hagulscuras hearde mid snawe ne bið ðær wædl ne lyre ne deaðes gryre ne yrmð ne agnes ne ænigu gnornung ac ðær samod ricxað sib mid spede and arfæstnes and ece god wuldor and wurðmynt swylce lof and lif and leoflic geðwærnes ufenan eal ðis ece drihten him ealra goda gehwylc glædlice ðenað ðær a andweard ealle weorðað and fehð and geblyssað fæder ætsomne wuldrað and wel hylt fægere frætuað and freolice lufað and on heofonsetle hean geregnað his sunu bliðe sigores brytta sylð anra gehwam ece mede heofonlice hyrsta ðæt is healic gifu gemang ðam ænlican engla werode and ðæra haligra heapum and ðreatum ðær hy beoð geðeode ðeodscipum on gemang betwyx heahfæderas and halige witegan blissiendum modum byrgum tomiddes ðær ða ærendracan synd ælmihtiges godes and betweoh rosena reade heapas ðær symle scinað ðær ðæra hwittra hwyrfð mædenheap blostmum behangen beorhtost wereda ðe ealle læt ænlicu godes drut seo frowe ðe us frean acende metod on moldan meowle seo clæne ðæt is maria mædena selast heo let ðurh ða scenan scinendan ricu gebletsodost ealra ðæs breman fæder betweox fæder and sunu freolicum werede and betwyx ðære ecan uplicum sibbe rice rædwitan rodera weardas hwæt mæg beon heardes her on life gif ðu wille secgan soð ðæm ðe frineð wið ðam ðu mote gemang ðam werode eardian unbleoh on ecnesse and on upcundra eadegum setlum brucan bliðnesse butan ende forð