The Paris Psalter: Psalm 137
Ic þe andette,
ecne drihten,
on minre gehygde
heortan ealre;
forðon þu ealle mine word
earum gehyrdest,
þa ic mid muðe
and mid mode cweðe,
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and on þinra engla
ealra gesihðe
ic þe singe
swiðe geneahhige.
Eac ic þin tempel
tidum weorðige,
þæt halige hus,
holde mode,
and þær þinne naman
on neod secge.
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Ofer þine þa miclan
mildheortnesse
and soðfæstnesse
samed ætgædere,
þu þinne þone halgan naman
neode gedydest,
ofer us ealle
æghwær micelne.
Swa hwylce daga
ic þe deorne cige,
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gehyr me hwætlice,
and me hraðe gedo
micle mine sawle
on þines mægenes sped.
Ealle þe andettan
eorðan
kyningas[?]
,
forðon þe hi gehyrdon
hlude reorde
þines muðes
þa mæran word;
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þa on sangum
singan drihtne.
Forþon
þin[?]
wuldur[?]
is
wide geond eorðan
micel and mære,
ofer middaneard
eart þu healice
ahafen, drihten;
þu eadmodra
ealra locast
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on heofonhame
her on eorðan.
þeah þe ic on midle
manes gange,
þær me costunga
cnysdan geneahhe,
a þu me weredest
wraþum feondum
þe me woldan yrre
on acyðan;
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þu me geræhtest
recene mid handa
and me þin swyðre
sneome hælde.
Drihten for me
dome gylde,
is his mildheortnes
mycel on worulde;
ne forseoh æfre,
þæt þu sylfa ær
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mid þinum handum
her geworhtest.