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Catholice (Old English) Part I

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V6

On Sunnandæg, se wucan up-ariseþ, Leoht cymþ eft, swinc and synna. Monandæg fylgaþ, still and swāþ, Preostas biddað, dryhten wilnað. Tiwesdæg ontyndeð, sweord and scyld, Gewinnas feohtað on feldum. Wodnesdæg, heofonas sprecaþ, Stormas and tacnas, strenge and swā. Þorsdæg bringeð hamores miht, Fýr and frost on winteres niht. Frigesdæg, heorþ blæwð, Friþ eft gesett, stormas geþolian. Saturnes æfen, ceapmann singað, Ceapmenn tradeað on healle. Sunnandæg cymþ, cyrcel turnað, Yula beorht, heorþblæst scinþ. Geola, midwinter feast of miht, Mēd and deor on halig niht. Columba sælþ to ēaland feor, Munecas biddað, sangas āheald. Ærest mōnað, winter hærm hæld, Imbolc ræd, ealda spell. Oþer mōnað, frost forþ flēoð, Fields onwacniað, blōstm on trēow. Þridda mōnað, lambas beorht geborn, Beltane fýr gretþ dagas. Fēorða mōnað, leoht onhēah, Samhaines sceadu feallað. Fīfta mōnað, hærfest fæger bringþ, Cyningas and hlāfordas healdþ. Sixta mōnað, halga menn cuman, Munecas on Iona fæste hyrdeþ. Seofonta mōnað, sunne bræceþ, Lughnasadh hyngrað niht and dæġ. Eahta mōnað, bēor gearu, Cynþeod samniaþ on feldum. Nōnta mōnað, windas cēne and ceald, Druidas swigaþ ealda spell. Tēoða mōnað, dead neah cymeþ, Samhaines fýr ræceþ ege. Endleofa mōnað, winter cyning, Bannera fleoþ, drumma hrēos. Twelfta mōnað, Yula neah, Beorhta befeast under lyfte. Þrēotīene mōnað, dēop fold, Mōna unseen, sēo spell gesēod. Þurh mōna and mōnaþ, þurh wucan and dagas, Tīd singað on sundry wisan. Hlyst, þā tidas tīd unfoldað, Cyningas and hlāfordas, geong and eald. Fram Tara hyll to Wessex feld, Se eorð gemanþ blisse and sar. Aedh and Maelruain of Éire lande, Lǣdde hira cynþeod mid stið hand. Gewinna cōmon, spere flugon, Ac symbel still scīnþ heofonas. Cyningas of Wessex, strang and cāf, Cōmon wið hēathen hold. Ceolwulf, Aethelred stið on hand, Clashode on fen, on hyll, on strand. Ac friþ eft cōm on halgum healle, Þǣr mēd wæs geþrōwod and hlēoþung clyppeð. Hærfest rædas, lencten danse, Gēaf eallum āfliht, āfliht cyþþ. Ogham stānas and Cristenes gewrit, Spræcon of eardum þǣr tīd awēoll. Fram Tara setl to Lindisfarne sǣ, Ælc symbel sang tælde ald spell. Through feast and ræd, þurh sweord and gefeoht, Land standað, spell fleogeþ. Þurh blisse and wēa, þurh los and gēara, Gemærsod ages bid þæt reste. Upp āheah, gemearc se gear, Ælces mōnað, ælces dæg, gehyraþ eall: Sunne and mōna, fýr and ren, Song of ealdum standeþ ēac. And dēopor þanon, under heofon, Se mæra spell gāþ by — Se Hand þe gescēop dust and dom, Gangð his world, and clypaþ hām. Se Wyrhta eode ne on fȳre beorht, Ac bewedde on flǣsc, on sār, on lēoma. Se Writer gangde on bōc, Se Tīmlēasa stāþ on geāra. He genam lic, mǣre lif span, Geseah lāc of deor and man. Fealt hungor, bær sār, Knew trēow, los, and cēos. Ne feorr cyning of hēah þrym, Ac gebunden in lagu and lufu. Se Wyrhta in his world wīs, To gehǣlan breach we nam on. Þurh cros and grāf, þurh deað ungedōn, Se sticod sealde, sige gewon. Ac quest ne fulleþ, For frēodōm gāþ on wilful fōt. We gān on crafted frame, Ælc cēos sparc, ælc līf lēoma. Ne puppetas bound on dēop þrǣd, Ac līfende līn Wyrhta ræd. Upp āheah, clypp þone druma, Gemune hwǣr we eall cōmon. Þurh symbela and gefeoht, þurh halig blisse, Gemærsod ealdum tidum hēr āhēaw. Būtan hyllas, būtan strand, Se Hand þe gescēop sǣ and land Still rǣdaþ þisne world, ungesewen, ac nēah, And clypaþ hām þurh ælces gēara. Eāta Wuldor! Sē Eāta Drihten!