For frost to freeze, for fire to burn trees,

For earth to hide seeds, for ice to bridge

Water, to walk on bright gleaming mail;

For Almighty God alone to unbind

Fetters of frost. For Winter to pass,

For warm season to come, for summer

Sun to shine hot, for the sea to seethe,

For the path of the dead to be hid,

Holly to hiss in the fire. For the things

Of the dead to be given, Only Glory clings.