Drihten, min gebed
deore gehyre,
and mid earum onfoh
ungemetum georne
mine halsunge;
heald me syððan
on þinre soðfæstnesse
and me on soðe gehyr.
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Ne ga þu mid þinum esne
in to dome,
forþon on þinre gesihðe ne bið
soðfæst ænig
þe on ðisse foldan
feorhlif bereð.
Forþon mine sawle
swiðe feondas
ealle ehtan
ungemete strange,
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habbað me gehnæged
heanne to eorðan
and min lif swylce
gelytlad is.
Hi me on digle
deorce stowe
settan sarlice
samed anlice,
swa þu worulddeade
wrige mid foldan;
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is me
ænge[?] gast
innan hreðres,
and me is heorte on
hearde gedrefed.
þonne ic on mode
gemyndgade,
hu me ærran dagas
oft alumpan,
metegade on mode
ealle[?] þine mæran weorc
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and ymbe þine handgeweorc
hogode georne.
þonne ic mine handa to þe
holde þenede
and mine sawle
sette mid mode,
swa eorðan bið
ansyn wæteres;
gehyr me hrædlice,
hæl me syþþan.
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Nu me deope is,
drihten leofa,
min sylfes gast
swær geworden,
ne awend fram me,
wuldres ealdur,
þine ansyne;
wese ic earmum gelic
þe on sweartne grund
syþþan astigað.
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Gedo þæt ic gehyre
holde on morgene
þine mildheortnesse,
mihtig drihten,
forþon ic hycge to ðe,
helpe gelyfe.
Do me wegas wise,
þæt ic wite gearwe
on hwylcne ic gange
gleawe mode;
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nu ic to drihtnes
dome wille
mine sawle
settan geornast.
Afyrr me, frea drihten,
feondum minum;
nu ic helpe to þe
holde gelyfe;
lær me, hu ic þinne willan
wyrce and fremme,
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forþon þu min god eart,
þu me god dydest.
Me[?] þin se goda gast
gleawe lædde,
þæt ic on rihtne weg
reðne ferde;
for naman þines
neodweorðunge,
drihten usser,
do me halne,
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þæt ic on ðinum rihte
rædfæst lifige.
And þu of costunge
clæne alæddest
sawle mine,
þær heo syððan forð
on þinre mildheortnesse
mote wunian;
and þu mine feondas
fæcne todrife,
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and eac forleose
laðra gehwylcne
þe mine sawle
synne ætfæsten,
forþon ic þin esne eom
agen symble.