The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 72
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Hu god is ece god mid Israhelum,
þam þe mid heortan hycgeað rihte;
me fornean syndon losode nu ða
ealle on foldan fota gangas.
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Forþon ic fæstlice fyrenwyrcende
oft elnade; noldun earme mid him
sibbe secean, sohton fyrene.
Forþon hira deaðes byð deorc endestæf,
ne heora wites bið wislic trymnes.
10
Ne synd hi on miclum manna gewinnum,
and hi mid manna ne beoð mægene beswungene.
Forþon hi oferhygd nam ungemete swyþe,
þurh þæt hira unriht wearð eall
untyned.
þanon forð becom fæcne unriht,
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swa swa hit of gelynde lungre cwome,
and hi on heortan hogedon and þohton,
hu hi fyrmest facen and unriht
on hean huse hraðost acwædon.
Hwæt, hi on heofon setton hyge hyra muþes,
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and hira tungan tugon ofer eorðan.
Forþon min folc hider fægere hweorfeð,
þær hi fulle dagas findað sona.
And þonne cwædon: "Hu
weorðeð þis cuð gode
oþþe þeos gewitness weorðeþ
on heagum?"
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þi nu fyrenfulle foldan æhta
and þysse worulde welan wynnum namon.
þa ic on mode cwæð minum sona,
þeah þe ic on me ingcan
ænne ne wiste,
hu ic mine heortan heolde mid soðe,
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and mine handa þwoh, þær ic hete
nyste,
and ic wæs ealne dæg eac geswungen,
wæs me leawfinger be leohtne dæg.
Gif ic sylf cwæde and sæcge eac,
swa þe bearn weorðað geboren syþþan,
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þa ylcan ic ær foreteode.
Ic þæs wende, þæt ic mid wisdome
full gleawlice ongitan mihte,
hu þis gewinn wolde gangan,
oþþæt ic on his hus halig gange
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and ic þa nehstan ongite neode syþþan.
Hwæðere þu him for inwite yfel befæle,
awurpe hi wraðe, þa hi wendan
ær,
þæt hi wæron alysde, laðum wiðferede.
Nu syndon hi gewordene wraðe tolysde,
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and semninga sneome forwurdon
for unrihte þe hi ær dydon,
swa fram slæpe hwylc swærum arise.
And hi on byrig drihtnes bealde habbað
hiora ansyne, and þu hi eaðe miht
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to nawihte forniman sneome.
Ys minre heortan hige hluttor and clæne,
wærun mine ædra ealle tolysde,
and ic to nawihte eom nyde gebiged,
swa ic þæt be owihte ær ne wiste.
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Ic eom anlic mid þe anum neate
and ic symble mid þe syþþan hwæðere.
þu mine swyþran hand sylfa gename,
and me mid þinon willan well gelæddest,
and me þa mid wuldres welan gename.
60
Hwæt mæg me wiðerhabban on heofonrice?
Hwæt wolde ic fram þe wyrcean ofer eorþan?
Me is heorte and flæsc hearde geteorad;
ys me heortan gehygd hyldu drihtnes
and ece dæl awa to worulde.
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Forþan þa forweorþað, þe
hira wynne to þe
habban noldan, ne heora hyge settan;
huru þu forleosest þa forhealdað þe.
Min is ætfele mihtigum drihtne;
good is swylce, þæt ic on god drihten
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minne hiht sette, healde fæste.
And ic eall þin lof eft asecge
Sione dohtrum on hire sylfre durum.
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