The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 57
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Gif ge soð sprecan symble wyllen,
demað manna bearn domum rihtum.
Eft ge on heortan hogedon inwit,
worhton wraðe; forþan ðæs wite
eft
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on eowre handa hefige geeode.
Ge firenfulle fremde wurdon,
syððan hi on worlde wæron acende
and heo on life lygeword spæcon.
Yrre heom becume anlic nædran,
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ða aspide ylde nemnað;
seo hi deafe deð, dytteð hyre earan,
þæt heo nele gehyran heahgaldor sum
þæt snotre men singað wið attrum.
God heora toðas grame gescæneð,
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þa hi on muðe mycle habbað;
tolyseð leona mægen lungre drihten.
Ac hi forweorðan wætere gelicost,
þonne hit yrnende eorðe forswelgeð;
swa his bogan bendeð, oðþæt bitere
eft
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adl on seteð, swa his geearnuncg byð.
Swa weax melteð, gif hit byð wearmum neah
fyre gefæstnad, swa heo feallað on þæt;
hi sunnan ne geseoð syððan æfre.
ærðon eowre treowu telgum
blowe,
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wæstmum weaxe, ær him wol becimeð,
þæt heo beoð on yrre ealle forswelgene.
Soðfæst blissað, þonne he sið
ongan,
hu þa arleasan ealle forweorðað,
and his handa ðwehð on hæþenra
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and þæra fyrenfulra fæcnum blode.
And þonne man cweþeð on his modsefan:
"þis is wæstm wises and goodes,
þe his soðfæst weorc symble læste;"
hi on eorðan god ealle gedemeð.
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