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The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry


The Paris Psalter: Psalm 55
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Miltsa me drihten,      forðon me man tredeð,
and me ealne dæg      mid unrihte
fynd onfeohtað      þurh facensearu.
And me fæcne tredað      feondas mine,

5

doð þæt ealne dæg      fram ærmergene.
Forðon monige synd      ðe to me feohtað;
wene ic me wraðe to ðe,      wuldres drihten.
Ic wealdend god      wordum herige,
and on god swylce      georne gelyfe,

10

þæt minre spræce      sped folgie
æghwæs ealne dæg;      eac ic swylce
on god drihten      gearewe gewene;
nis me ege mannes      for ahwæðer.
Hwæt, me ealne dæg      mine agen word

15

sylfne socon,      swyþe oncuðon,
and wiðer me      wæran georne
on yfel heora geðeaht      ealle onwende.
On eardiað,      þa ðe swa þenceað
þæt heo gehyden      hælun mine,

20

swa min sawl bad      þæt ðu swylce heo
for nahwæðer      nowiht hæle;
on yrre þu folc      eall geðreatast.
Ic nu leofum gode      lif min secge,
sette on ðinre gesyhðe      sarige tearas,

25

swa ic ðe on gehate      hæfde geneahhige.
þonne on hinderling      hweorfað mine
feondas fæcne,      ðonne ic me freoðu to ðe
wordum wilnige;      ic wat and can,
þæt þu min god      gleawe wære.

30

Ic on god min word      georne herige,
and on god swylce      georne gelyfe,
and ic ealne dæg      ecne drihten
wordum weorðige;      ne me wiht an siteð
egesan awiht      æniges mannes.

35

On me synd, mihtig god,      þæt ic þe min gehat
on herenesse      hyldo gylde;
forþon ðu mine sawle      of swyltdeaðes
laþum wiðlæddest,      dydest lof stunde,
aweredest mine eagan      wraðum tearum

40

and mine fet      fæle beweredest,
þæt ic gearewe      gode licode
on lifigendra      leohte eallum.




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