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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 87

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 53 sections

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   þu eart me, drihten god, dyre hælend;

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   ic on dæge to ðe dygle cleopode,

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   and on niht fore þe neode swylce.

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   Gange min ingebed on þin gleawe gesihð;

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   ahyld eare þin and gehyr min gebed.

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   Forðon is sawl min sares and yfeles

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   fæste gefylled; is min feorh swylce

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   to helldore hylded geneahhe.

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   Wenað þæs sume, þæt ic on wraðne seað

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    mid fyrenwyrhtum feallan sceolde;

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    ic eom men gelic mære geworden,

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    þe mid deadum bið betweox deaðe freo.

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    Swa gewundade wraðe slæpe

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    syn þonne geworpene on widne hlæw,

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    þær hiora gymynde men ne wænan,

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    swa hi syn fram þinre handa heane adrifene.

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    Hi me asetton on seað hinder,

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    þær wæs deorc þeostru and deaþes scua.

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    þær me wæs yrre þin on acyþed,

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    and þu me oferhige on ealle gelæddest.

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    Feor ðu me dydest freondas cuþe;

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    settan me symble, þær me unswæsost wæs;

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    eam ic swære geseald, þær ic ut swican ne mæg.

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    Eagan me syndon unhale nu

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    geworden for wædle; ic me to wuldres gode

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    þuruh ealne dæg elne clypige

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    and mine handa to þe hebbe and ðenige.

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    Ne huru wundur wyrceað deade,

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    oþþe hi listum læceas weccean

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    and hi andettan þe ealle syþþan.

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    Ne on ðeostrum ne mæg þances gehygdum

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    ænig wislicu wundur oncnawan,

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    oððe þin soðfæstnes si on þam lande

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    þe ofergytnes on eardige.

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    Cwist þu, oncnawað hi wundru ðine

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    on ðam dimmum deorcan ðystrum,

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    oððe ðine rihtwisnesse recene gemeteð

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    on ofergyttolnesse manna ænig?

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    Ic me to ðe, ece drihten,

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    mid modgehygde mægene clypade,

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    and min gebed morgena gehwylce

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    fore sylfne þe soðfæst becume.

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    Forhwan ðu min gebed æfre woldest,

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    soð god, wiðsacan, oððe þinre gesihðe me

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    on þissum ealdre æfre wyrnan?

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    Wædla ic eom on gewinne, worhte swa on geoguðe;

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    ahafen ic wæs and gehyned, hwæðere næs gescended.

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    Oft me þines yrres egsa geðeowde,

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    and me broga þin bitere gedrefde.

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    Hi me ealne dæg utan ymbsealdan,

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    swa wæterflodas wæron ætsomne.

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    þu me afyrdest frynd þa nehstan

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    and mine cuðe eac cwicu geyrmdest.

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