Now the Son sits on his Father’s right hand; every day the Lord of
hosts distributes help and salvation to people throughout the world. It is
widely known that he alone is the maker and ruler of all created beings through
his glorious skill. The holy angel sits in heaven, the ruler with his prophets.
The Son of glory has surrounded his own throne with the sky. Through his
healing remedy he summons us there, into the light, where we ourselves may sit
with the Lord, with the angels on high, and enjoy that same light, where his
holy court now lives and dwells in delights, where the radiant glory of heaven
is revealed. Let us take good. (Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints [trans.
Mary Clayton; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 27; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2013], 341)
