The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 128
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Oft me fuhtan to fynd on geoguðe,
cweðan Israhelas nu eac þæt sylfe;
oft me fuhtan to fynd on geoguþe,
ne mihton hi awiht æt me æfre gewyrcean.
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Ofer minum bæce bitere ongunnon
þa firenfullan facen timbrian,
and heora unriht eft gelengdon.
Drihten is soðfæst, and gedeð sniome,
þæt he firenfullra fæcne geðancas
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wis toweorpeð; weorðað gescende
and hiora scamiað swiþust ealles,
þa to Sione hete swiðost hæfdon.
Wesen hi hige her gelicast
þam þe on huses þæce heah aweaxeð,
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þæt bið forwisnad wraðe sona,
ær hit afohten foldan losige.
Of þam he ne gefylleð folme æfre,
þeah þe he hit mawe micle elne;
ne mid his sceafe ne mæg sceat afyllan,
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þeah þe he samnige swiðe georne.
And þæt ne cweðan, þa his cwide
weoldan
on ofergeate æghwær hæbben:
"Us gebletsige bealde drihten
and ofer eow wese eac his bletsung;
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we eow neodlice on naman drihtnes
swylce bletsiað bliðe mode."
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