188 XXIV. TUE PUCENIX.
worila and weorca wynsumne stęnc
in þā mǽvan gesceaf't . Meotude bringað [660]
in þæt lēohte līf'. Sŷ him lof symle
þurh woruld worulda and wuldres blǽd,
5 ār and onwald in j-ām ūplīcan
rodera rīce! He is on ryht Cyning
middangeardes and mægenþrymmes , [665]
wuldre biwunden in þǽre wlitigan byrig.
Hafað us ālŷfed lucis auctor,
io þæt we mōtun her merueri1

gōddǽduin begietān gaudia in celo,
þǽr we mōtun maxima regna £670]
sēcan and gesittan sedibus altis,
lifgan in lisse lucis et pads,
. 15 āgan eardinga almae letitiae,

brūcan blæddaga, Uandem et mitem
gesēon sigora Frēan sine fine,
and him lof singan laude perenne
ēadge mid ęnglum. Alleluia.

1 Ettmiiller. meruisse; Grein, mereri.