Christ I (The Advent Lyrics)

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fols. 8r–14r

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wiðwurpon to weorce. Wel þe geriseð

þæt þu heafod sie healle mærre,

ond gesomnige side weallas

fæste gefoge, flint unbræcne,

þæt geond eorðb… …g eall eagna gesihþe

wundrien to worlde wuldres ealdor.

Gesweotula nu þurh searocræft þin sylfes weorc,

soðfæst, sigorbeorht, ond sona forlæt

weall wið wealle. Nu is þam weorce þearf

þæt se cræftga cume ond se cyning sylfa,

ond þonne gebete, nu gebrosnad is,

hus under hrofe. He þæt hra gescop,

leomo læmena; nu sceal liffrea

þone wergan heap wraþum ahreddan,

earme from egsan, swa he oft dyde.

Eala þu reccend ond þu riht cyning,

se þe locan healdeð, lif ontyneð,

eadga… upwegas, oþrum forwyrneð

wlitigan wilsiþes, gif his weorc ne deag.

Huru we for þearfe þas word sprecað,

ond m… …giað þone þe mon gescop

þæt he ne …ete… …ceose weorðan

cearfulra þing, þe we in carcerne

sittað sorgende, sunnan wenað,

hwonne us liffrea leoht ontyne,

weorðe ussum mode to mundboran,

ond þæt tydre gewitt tire bewinde,

gedo usic þæs wyrðe, þe he to wuldre forlet,

þa we heanlice hweorfan sceoldan

to þis enge lond, eðle bescyrede.

Forþon secgan mæg, se ðe soð spriceð,

þæt he ahredde, þa forhwyrfed wæs,

frumcyn fira. Wæs seo fæmne geong,

mægð manes leas, þe he him to meder geceas;

þæt wæs geworden butan weres frigum,

þæt þurh bearnes gebyrd bryd eacen wearð.

Nænig efenlic þam, ær ne siþþan,

in worlde gewearð wifes gearnung;

þæt degol wæs, dryhtnes geryne.

Eal giofu gæstlic grundsceat geondspreot;

þær wisna fela wearð inlihted

lare longsume þurh lifes fruman

þe ær under hoðman biholen lægon,

witgena woðsong, þa se waldend cwom,

se þe reorda gehwæs ryne gemiclað

ðara þe geneahhe noman scyppendes

þurh horscne had hergan willað.

Eala sibbe gesihð, sancta Hierusalem,

cynestola cyst, Cristes burglond,

engla eþelstol, ond þa ane in þe

saule soðfæstra simle gerestað,

wuldrum hremge. Næfre wommes tacn

in þam eardgearde eawed weorþeð,

ac þe firina gehwylc feor abugeð,

wærgðo ond gewinnes. Bist to wuldre full

halgan hyhtes, swa þu gehaten eart.

Sioh nu sylfa þe geond þas sidan gesceaft,

swylce rodores hrof rume geondwlitan

ymb healfa gehwone, hu þec heofones cyning

siðe geseceð, ond sylf cymeð,

nimeð eard in þe, swa hit ær gefyrn

witgan wisfæste wordum sægdon,

cyðdon Cristes gebyrd, cwædon þe to frofre,

burga betlicast. Nu is þæt bearn cymen,

awæcned to wyrpe weorcum Ebrea,

bringeð blisse þe, benda onlyseð

niþum genedde. Nearoþearfe conn,

hu se earma sceal are gebidan:~|

Eala wifa wynn geond wuldres þrym,

fæmne freolicast ofer ealne foldan sceat

þæs þe æfre sundbuend secgan hyrdon,

arece us þæt geryne þæt þe of roderum cwom,

hu þu eacnunge æfre onfenge

bearnes þurh gebyrde, ond þone gebedscipe

æfter monwisan mod ne cuðes.

Ne we soðlice swylc ne gefrugnan

in ærdagum æfre gelimpan,

þæt ðu in sundurgiefe swylce befenge,

ne we þære wyrde wenan þurfon

toweard in tide. Huru treow in þe

weorðlicu wunade, nu þu wuldres þrym

bosme gebære, ond no gebrosnad wearð

mægðhad se micla. Swa eal manna bearn

sorgum sawað, swa eft ripað,

cennað to cwealme. Cwæð sio eadge mæg

symle sigores full, sancta Maria:

Hwæt is þeos wundrung þe ge wafiað,

ond geomrende gehþum mænað,

sunu Solimæ somod his dohtor?

Fricgað þurh fyrwet hu ic fæmnan had,

mund minne geheold, ond eac modor gewearð

mære meotudes suna. Forþan þæt monnum nis

cuð geryne, ac Crist onwrah

in Dauides dyrre mægan

þæt is Euan scyld eal forpynded,

wærgða aworpen, ond gewuldrad is

se heanra had. Hyht is onfangen

þæt nu bletsung mot bæm gemæne,

werum ond wifum, a to worulde forð

in þam uplican engla dreame

mid soðfæder symle wunian.

Eala earendel, engla beorhtast,

ofer middangeard monnum sended,

ond soðfæsta sunnan leoma,

torht ofer tunglas, þu tida gehwane

of sylfum þe symle inlihtes!

Swa þu, god of gode gearo acenned,

sunu soþan fæder, swegles in wuldre

butan anginne æfre wære,

swa þec nu for þearfum þin agen geweorc

bideð þurh byldo, þæt þu þa beorhtan us

sunnan onsende, ond þe sylf cyme

þæt ðu inleohte þa þe longe ær,

þrosme beþeahte ond in þeostrum her,

sæton sinneahtes; synnum bifealdne

deorc deaþes sceadu dreogan sceoldan.

Nu we hyhtfulle hælo gelyfað

þurh þæt word godes weorodum brungen,

þe on frymðe wæs fæder ælmihtigum

efenece mid god, ond nu eft gewearð

flæsc firena leas, þæt seo fæmne gebær

geomrum to geoce. God wæs mid us

gesewen butan synnum; somod eardedon

mihtig meotudes bearn ond se monnes sunu

geþwære on þeode. We þæs þonc magon

secgan sigedryhtne symle bi gewyrhtum,

þæs þe he hine sylfne us sendan wolde.

Eala gæsta god, hu þu gleawlice

mid noman ryhte nemned wære

Emmanuhel, swa hit engel gecwæð

ærest on Ebresc! þæt is eft gereht,

rume bi gerynum: Nu is rodera weard,

god sylfa mid us. Swa þæt gomele gefyrn

ealra cyninga cyning ond þone clænan eac

sacerd soðlice sægdon toweard,

swa se mæra iu, Melchisedech,

gleaw in gæste godþrym onwrah

eces alwaldan. Se wæs æ bringend,

lara lædend, þam longe his

hyhtan hidercyme, swa him gehaten wæs,

þætte sunu meotudes sylfa wolde

gefælsian foldan mægðe,

swylce grundas eac gæstes mægne

siþe gesecan. Nu hie softe þæs

bidon in bendum hwonne bearn godes

cwome to cearigum. Forþon cwædon swa,

suslum geslæhte: Nu þu sylfa cum,

heofones heahcyning. Bring us hælolif,

werigum witeþeowum, wope forcymenum,

bitrum brynetearum. Is seo bot gelong

eal æt þe anum …… oferþearfum.

Hæftas hygegeomre hider …es;

ne læt þe behindan, þonne þu heonan cyrre,

mænigo þus micle, ac þu miltse on us

gecyð cynelice, Crist nergende,

wuldres æþeling, ne læt awyrgde ofer us

onwald agan. Læf us ecne gefean

wuldres þines, þæt þec weorðien,

weoroda wuldorcyning, þa þu geworhtes ær

hondum þinum. þu in heannissum

wunast wideferh mid waldend fæder.|

Eala Ioseph min, Iacobes bearn,

mæg Dauides, mæran cyninges,

nu þu freode scealt fæste gedælan,

alætan lufan mine! Ic lungre eam

deope gedrefed, dome bereafod,

forðon ic worn for þe worde hæbbe

sidra sorga ond sarcwida,

hearmes gehyred, ond me hosp sprecað,

tornworda fela. Ic tearas sceal

geotan geomormod. God eaþe mæg

gehælan hygesorge heortan minre,

afrefran feasceaftne. Eala fæmne geong,

mægð Maria! Hwæt bemurnest ðu,

cleopast cearigende? Ne ic culpan in þe,

incan ænigne, æfre onfunde,

womma geworhtra, ond þu þa word spricest

swa þu sylfa sie synna gehwylcre

firena gefylled. Ic to fela hæbbe

þæs byrdscypes bealwa onfongen!

Hu mæg ic ladigan laþan spræce,

oþþe ondsware ænige findan

wraþum towiþere? Is þæt wide cuð

þæt ic of þam torhtan temple dryhtnes

onfeng freolice fæmnan clæne,

womma lease, ond nu gehwyrfed is

þurh nathwylces. Me nawþer deag,

secge ne swige. Gif ic soð sprece,

þonne sceal Dauides dohtor sweltan,

stanum astyrfed. Gen strengre is

þæt ic morþor hele; scyle manswara,

laþ leoda gehwam lifgan siþþan,

fracoð in folcum. þa seo fæmne onwrah

ryhtgeryno, ond þus reordade:

Soð ic secge þurh sunu meotudes,

gæsta geocend, þæt ic gen ne conn

þurh gemæcscipe monnes ower,

ænges on eorðan, ac me eaden wearð,

geongre in geardum, þæt me Gabrihel,

heofones heagengel, hælo gebodade.

Sægde soðlice þæt me swegles gæst

leoman onlyhte, sceolde ic lifes þrym

geberan, beorhtne sunu, bearn eacen godes,

torhtes tirfruman. Nu ic his tempel eam

gefremed butan facne, in me frofre gæst

geeardode. Nu þu ealle forlæt

sare sorgceare. Saga ecne þonc

mærum meotodes sunu þæt ic his modor gewearð,

fæmne forð seþeah, ond þu fæder cweden

woruldcund bi wene; sceolde witedom

in him sylfum beon soðe gefylled.

Eala þu soða ond þu sibsuma

ealra cyninga cyning, Crist ælmihtig,

hu þu ær wære eallum geworden

worulde þrymmum mid þinne wuldorfæder

cild acenned þurh his cræft ond meaht!

Nis ænig nu eorl under lyfte,

secg searoþoncol, to þæs swiðe gleaw

þe þæt asecgan mæge sundbuendum,

areccan mid ryhte, hu þe rodera weard

æt frymðe genom him to freobearne.

þæt wæs þara þinga þe her þeoda cynn

gefrugnen mid folcum æt fruman ærest

geworden under wolcnum, þæt witig god,

lifes ordfruma, leoht ond þystro

gedælde dryhtlice, ond him wæs domes geweald,

ond þa wisan abead weoroda ealdor:

Nu sie geworden forþ a to widan feore

leoht, lixende gefea, lifgendra gehwam

þe in cneorissum cende weorðen.

Ond þa sona gelomp, þa hit swa sceolde,

leoma leohtade leoda mægþum,

torht mid tunglum, æfter þon tida bigong.

Sylfa sette þæt þu sunu wære

efeneardigende mid þinne engan frean

ærþon oht þisses æfre gewurde.

þu eart seo snyttro þe þas sidan gesceaft

mid þi waldende worhtes ealle.

Forþon nis ænig þæs horsc, ne þæs hygecræftig,

þe þin fromcyn mæge fira bearnum

sweotule geseþan. Cum, nu, sigores weard,

meotod moncynnes, ond þine miltse her

arfæst ywe! Us is eallum neod

þæt we þin medrencynn motan cunnan,

ryhtgeryno, nu we areccan ne mægon

þæt fædrencynn fier owihte.

þu þisne middangeard milde geblissa

þurh ðinne hercyme, hælende Crist,

ond þa gyldnan geatu, þe in geardagum

ful longe ær bilocen stodan,

heofona heahfrea, hat ontynan,

ond usic þonne gesece þurh þin sylfes gong

eaðmod to eorþan. Us is þinra arna þearf!

Hafað se awyrgda wulf tostenced,

deor dædscua, dryhten, þin eowde,

wide towrecene. þæt ðu, waldend, ær

blode gebohtes, þæt se bealofulla

hyneð heardlice, ond him on hæft nimeð

ofer usse nioda lust. Forþon we, nergend, þe

biddað geornlice breostgehygdum

þæt þu hrædlice helpe gefremme

wergum wreccan, þæt se wites bona

in helle grund hean gedreose,

ond þin hondgeweorc, hæleþa scyppend,

mote arisan ond on ryht cuman

to þam upcundan æþelan rice,

þonan us ær þurh synlust se swearta gæst

forteah ond fortylde, þæt we, tires wone,

a butan ende sculon ermþu dreogan,

butan þu usic þon ofostlicor, ece dryhten,

æt þam leodsceaþan, lifgende god,

helm alwihta, hreddan wille|

Eala þu mæra middangeardes

seo clæneste cwen ofer eorþan

þara þe gewurde to widan feore,

hu þec mid ryhte ealle reordberend

hatað ond secgað, hæleð geond foldan,

bliþe mode, þæt þu bryd sie

þæs selestan swegles bryttan.

Swylce þa hyhstan on heofonum eac,

Cristes þegnas, cweþað ond singað

þæt þu sie hlæfdige halgum meahtum

wuldorweorudes, ond worldcundra

hada under heofonum, ond helwara.

Forþon þu þæt ana ealra monna

geþohtest þrymlice, þristhycgende,

þæt þu þinne mægðhad meotude brohtes,

sealdes butan synnum. Nan swylc ne cwom

ænig oþer ofer ealle men,

bryd beaga hroden, þe þa beorhtan lac

to heofonhame hlutre mode

siþþan sende. Forðon heht sigores fruma

his heahbodan hider gefleogan

of his mægenþrymme ond þe meahta sped

snude cyðan, þæt þu sunu dryhtnes

þurh clæne gebyrd cennan sceolde

monnum to miltse, ond þe, Maria, forð

efne unwemme a gehealdan.

Eac we þæt gefrugnon, þæt gefyrn bi þe

soðfæst sægde sum woðbora

in ealddagum, Esaias,

þæt he wære gelæded þæt he lifes gesteald

in þam ecan ham eal sceawode.

Wlat þa swa wisfæst witga geond þeodland

oþþæt he gestarode þær gestaþelad wæs

æþelic ingong. Eal wæs gebunden

deoran since duru ormæte,

wundurclommum bewriþen. Wende swiðe

þæt ænig elda æfre ne meahte

swa fæstlice forescyttelsas

on ecnesse o inhebban,

oþþe ðæs ceasterhlides clustor onlucan,

ær him godes engel þurh glædne geþonc

þa wisan onwrah ond þæt word acwæð:

Ic þe mæg secgan þæt soð gewearð

þæt ðas gyldnan gatu giet sume siþe

god sylf wile gæstes mægne

gefælsian, fæder ælmihtig,

ond þurh þa fæstan locu foldan neosan,

ond hio þonne æfter him ece stondað

simle singales swa beclysed

þæt nænig oþer, nymðe nergend god,

hy æfre ma eft onluceð.

Nu þæt is gefylled þæt se froda þa

mid eagum þær on wlatade.

þu eart þæt wealldor, þurh þe waldend frea

æne on þas eorðan ut siðade,

ond efne swa þec gemette, meahtum gehrodene,

clæne ond gecorene, Crist ælmihtig.

Swa ðe æfter him engla þeoden

eft unmæle ælces þinges

lioþucægan bileac, lifes brytta.

Iowa us nu þa are þe se engel þe,

godes spelboda, Gabriel brohte.

Huru þæs biddað burgsittende

þæt ðu þa frofre folcum cyðe,

þinre sylfre sunu. Siþþan we motan

anmodlice ealle hyhtan,

nu we on þæt bearn foran breostum stariað.

Geþinga us nu þristum wordum

þæt he us ne læte leng owihte

in þisse deaðdene gedwolan hyran,

ac þæt he usic geferge in fæder rice,

þær we sorglease siþþan motan

wunigan in wuldre mid weoroda god.

Eala þu halga heofona dryhten,

þu mid fæder þinne gefyrn wære

efenwesende in þam æþelan ham.

Næs ænig þa giet engel geworden,

ne þæs miclan mægenþrymmes nan

ðe in roderum up rice biwitigað,

þeodnes þryðgesteald ond his þegnunga,

þa þu ærest wære mid þone ecan frean

sylf settende þas sidan gesceaft,

brade brytengrundas. Bæm inc is gemæne

heahgæst hleofæst. We þe, hælend Crist,

þurh eaðmedu ealle biddað

þæt þu gehyre hæfta stefne,

þinra niedþiowa, nergende god,

hu we sind geswencte þurh ure sylfra gewill.

Habbað wræcmæcgas wergan gæstas,

hetlen helsceaþa, hearde genyrwad,

gebunden bealorapum. Is seo bot gelong

eall æt þe anum, ece dryhten.

Hreowcearigum help, þæt þin hidercyme

afrefre feasceafte, þeah we fæhþo wið þec

þurh firena lust gefremed hæbben.

Ara nu onbehtum ond usse yrmþa geþenc,

hu we tealtrigað tydran mode,

hwearfiað heanlice. Cym nu, hæleþa cyning,

ne lata to lange. Us is lissa þearf,

þæt þu us ahredde ond us hælogiefe

soðfæst sylle, þæt we siþþan forð

þa sellan þing symle moten

geþeon on þeode, þinne willan|

Eala seo wlitige, weorðmynda full,

heah ond halig, heofoncund þrynes,

brade geblissad geond brytenwongas

þa mid ryhte sculon reordberende,

earme eorðware ealle mægene

hergan healice, nu us hælend god

wærfæst onwrah þæt we hine witan moton.

Forþon hy, dædhwæte, dome geswiðde,

þæt soðfæste seraphinnes cynn,

uppe mid englum a bremende,

unaþreotendum þrymmum singað

ful healice hludan stefne,

fægre feor ond neah. Habbaþ folgoþa

cyst mid cyninge. Him þæt Crist forgeaf,

þæt hy motan his ætwiste eagum brucan

simle singales, swegle gehyrste,

weorðian waldend wide ond side,

ond mid hyra fiþrum frean ælmihtges

onsyne weardiað, ecan dryhtnes,

ond ymb þeodenstol þringað georne

hwylc hyra nehst mæge ussum nergende

flihte lacan friðgeardum in.

Lofiað leoflicne ond in leohte him

þa word cweþað, ond wuldriað

æþelne ordfruman ealra gesceafta:

Halig eart þu, halig, heahengla brego,

soð sigores frea, simle þu bist halig,

dryhtna dryhten! A þin dom wunað

eorðlic mid ældum in ælce tid

wide geweorþad. þu eart weoroda god,

forþon þu gefyldest foldan ond rodoras,

wigendra hleo, wuldres þines,

helm alwihta. Sie þe in heannessum

ece hælo, ond in eorþan lof,

beorht mid beornum. þu gebletsad leofa,

þe in dryhtnes noman dugeþum cwome

heanum to hroþre. þe in heahþum sie

a butan ende ece herenis.

Eala hwæt, þæt is wræclic wrixl in wera life,

þætte moncynnes milde scyppend

onfeng æt fæmnan flæsc unwemme,

ond sio weres friga wiht ne cuþe,

ne þurh sæd ne cwom sigores agend

monnes ofer moldan; ac þæt wæs ma cræft

þonne hit eorðbuend ealle cuþan

þurh geryne, hu he, rodera þrim,

heofona heahfrea, helpe gefremede

monna cynne þurh his modor hrif.

Ond swa forðgongende folca nergend

his forgifnesse gumum to helpe

dæleð dogra gehwam, dryhten weoroda.

Forþon we hine domhwate dædum ond wordum

hergen holdlice. þæt is healic ræd

monna gehwylcum þe gemynd hafað,

þæt he symle oftost ond inlocast

ond geornlicost god weorþige.

He him þære lisse lean forgildeð,

se gehalgoda hælend sylfa,

efne in þam eðle þær he ær ne cwom,

in lifgendra londes wynne,

þær he gesælig siþþan eardað,

ealne widan feorh wunað butan ende:~Amen|

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