ōðera gesceafta, ðū ūs simle gearwast ǣce lȳf, and ūs ǣac gyrwast tō þām acan lȳfe.
Cum mē nū tō fultome, þū þe æart āna ēce and sōð Godþrimnesse - Fæder, and Suna, and[1] se Hāliga Gāst - būton ǣlcere tōdēlennesse oððe onhwæerfednesse, and būtan ēlcere nēode oððe unmihte, and būtan dēaðe. Þū þe simle swā wunast on þēre hēhstan beorhtnesse[2] and on þǣre hēhstan geststæðþinesse, on þēre hēhstan ānmōdnesse and on þēre hēhstan genyhte,[3] forðām þē nānes gōdes nis wana, ac þū simle wunast swā ful ǣlces goodes on ēcnesse. Þū eart Feder, and Sunu, and se Hālgan Gast.
Þē ðēowiað ealle ðā gesceaftas ðe þū gescēope; ðē ys ǣlc gōd sāwl underþāed; be þīnre hēse hēo hweorfð — sēo heofene and ealla tungla[4] heora rina behealdað; be þīnre hēse[5] sēo sunne bringð lēohtne dæg, and se mōna lēoht on nyht; be þāra ānlīcnesse þū āstȳrst and wildest æallum þis middangearde, swā þæt ealle gesceafta wrixliað swā dæg and nyht. Đū recst þæt gēar and rēdst þurh þæt gewrixle þāra fēower tȳda, þæt ys, lencten[6] and sumer and herfest and winter; þāra wrixlað ælc wyð oððer and hwerfiað, swā þat heora ǣgðer byð eft emne þat[7] þæt hyt ǣr wæs, and þǣr þǣr hyt ǣr wes; and swā wrixlað eall tunglai and hwerfiað on þām ylcan wīsan, and eft sē and ēa; on ða ylcan wīsan hweorfiað ealle gescæafta. Wrixliað sume þā
et egenis elementis. Deus qui nos purgas, et ad divina praeparas praemia adveni mihi propitius tu.
Quidquid a me dictum est, unus Deus tu, tu veni mihi in auxilium; una aeterna vera substantia, ubi nulla discrepantia, nulla confusio, nulla transitio, nulla indigentia, nulla mors. Ubi summa concordia, summa evidentia, summa plenitudo, summa vita. Ubi nihil deest, nihil redundat. Ubi qui gignit, et quem gignit unum est.
Deus cui serviunt omnia quae serviunt; cui obtemperat omnis bona anima. Cujus legibus rotantur poli, cursus suos sidera peragunt, sol exeret diem, luna temperat noctem: omnisque mundus per dies, vicissitudine lucis et noctis; per menes, incrementis decrementisque
