and

A great wound, and seized at the end of life

Wounded; and after him shall be a ruler

Many inhabitants and citizens;

Shall bear rule and lay waste the Thracians' land

Which is much varied, and he shall destroy

And the Iberians that shoot the arrow.

Another greatest evil, and with them

And the walls of the Assyrians shall fall

By many warriors. And again a man

And then shall threatenings of the mighty God,

Earthquakes, and great plagues be on every land,

Untimely snow-storms, and strong thunderbolts.

And then the great king, mountain-roaming Celt,

And after him another shall arise,

A silver-headed man, and of the sea

Shall be his name, and of four syllables,

By his own foot, and bringing gifts away,

Both gold and amber much will he supply

For many; and magicians' mysteries

And what is much more excellent for men

And great peace shall be when he shall be lord;

And he shall be a minstrel of rich voice

And a participant in lawful things,

And a just minister of what is right;

After him three shall rule, and the third late

Bear the rule; and another after him

And their names shall be honored; and they shall

And their names shall be honored; and they shall

Britons and mighty Moors and Dacians

Britons and mighty Moors and Dacians

And the Arabians. But when the last

Against the Parthians come, and utterly

Shall he destroy them. And then shall the king

And after him another man shall rule,

In many wise things skilled, and he shall have

Of the first unit; and he shall be good

And mighty; and for the illustrious Latins

And mighty; and for the illustrious Latins

In memory of his father; and forthwith

And silver and ivory; and he shall go

And silver and ivory; and he shall go

And silver and ivory; and he shall go

Within the market places and the temples

With a strong man. And sometime direst wound

And he shall sack the whole land of the Germans,

From heaven, and shall for the king's piety

Save men in brazen armor and distress;

For God who is in heaven and hears all things

Of the great pious king; and at the end

By his own lot and leave the royal power

Of mind shall grasp all things; and he shall rival

And be the best in mighty arms and have

And be the best in mighty arms and have

The greatest fame in chase and horsemanship;

And while this man is ruler there shall be

May not discern his neighbor. And then wars

And weakly, shall come in the marriage-bed

And then, in helpless loneliness concealed,

Because of zeal for power; and by the hands

Shall perish. And then Rome shall be bereft

And shall repay all things, which she alone

Gave good law to thee and to men on earth,

And the Word of the great immortal God

Two hundred years, twice twenty and twice two,

And burdened with old age; but he shall make

And murders, homicides, and deadly feuds

And murders, homicides, and deadly feuds

And miseries of conquests there shall be,

And in confusion many a horse and man

And in confusion many a horse and man

And then another man shall rule, and have

And then another man shall rule, and have

And many sorrows shall he bring to pass,

And groans, and he shall plunder many men;

And groans, and he shall plunder many men;

But he himself shall be short-lived and fall

And he shall flee thereafter and shall come

And he shall flee thereafter and shall come

And the Cilician plain; but brazen Ares

And then again there shall rule craftily

Roused up by the West, and his name shall have

The number of two hundred. And again

Raise a whole army and subject all things.

And he shall rule the Romans with his might;

And violent in war, who shall destroy

All high-born men upon the earth, and slay

The noble for their wealth, and, robber like,

He shall go to the East; and all deceit

And then the kings of Persia shall rise up;

And . . . Roman Ares Roman lord.

And Phrygia shall with earthquakes groan again

In the hands of Ares; and the lot of men

The other . . . gleaming and this not at once all know;

Who honor God and shun idolatry.

And now, Lord of the world, of every realm

A little and put from my heart aside

Who gives to kings their power and takes away,

And who determined for them time both ways,

Both that of life and that of baneful death.

And these the heavenly God enjoins on me