A Summons to Prayer University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.6.19 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 A Summons to Prayer
ðænne gemiltsað ðe n [mundum qui regit] ðeoda ðrymcyningc [thronum sedentem] a butan ende saule ðinre geunne ðe on life [auctor pacis] sibbe gesælða [salus mundi] metod se mæra [magna uirtute] and se soðfæsta [summi filius] fo on fultum [factor cosmi] se of æðelre wæs [uirginis partu] clæne acenned [Christus in orbem] metod ðurh marian [mundi redemptor] and ðurh ðæne halgan gast [Uoca frequenter] bide helpes hine [clemens deus] se onsended wæs [summo de throno] and ðære clænan [clara uoce] ða gebyrd bodade [bona uoluntate] ðæt heo scolde cennan [Christum regem] ealra cyninga cyningc [casta uiuendo] and ðu ða soðfæstan [supplex rogo] fultumes bidde friclo [uirginem almum] and ðær æfter to [omnes sancti] bliðmod bidde [beatus et iustus] ðæt hi ealle ðe [unica uoce] ðingian to ðeodne [thronum regentem] æcum drihtne [alta polorum] ðæt he ðine saule [summus iudex] onfo freolice [factor aeternus] and he gelæde [luce perhennem] ðær eadige [animæ sanctæ] rice restað [regna caelorum]