Tanta eo tempore pax in Britannia fuisse perhibetur, ut, sicut usque hodie in proverbio dicitur, etiamsi mulier una cum recens nato parvulo vellet to… - Bede

Before the dread journey which needs must be taken
No man is more mindful than meet is and right
To ponder, ere hence he departs, what his spirit
Shall, after the death-day, receive as its portion
Of good or of evil, by mandate of doom.

Now must we hymn the Master of heaven,
The might of the Maker, the deeds of the Father,
The thought of His heart. He, Lord everlasting,
Established of old the source of all wonders:
Creator all-holy, He hung the bright heaven,
A roof high upreared, o’er the children of men;
The King of mankind then created for mortals
The world in its beauty, the earth spread beneath them,
He, Lord everlasting, omnipotent God.

Nū þ sculan herian • heofonrices þeard,
metudes myhte • his modᵹeþanc,
þurc þuldorfæder, • sþa he þundra ᵹehþilc,
ece drihten • ord astealde;
he ærest ᵹesceop • ylda bearnum
heofon to hrofe, • haliᵹ scyppend,
middanᵹearde • mancynnes þard;
ece drihtin, • æfter tida
firum on foldum, • frea ællmyhtiᵹ.