The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Paris Psalter: Psalm 137
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ic þe andette, ecne drihten,
on minre gehygde heortan ealre;
forðon þu ealle mine word earum gehyrdest,
þa ic mid muðe and mid mode cweðe,
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and on þinra engla ealra gesihðe
ic þe singe swiðe geneahhige.
Eac ic þin tempel tidum weorðige,
þæt halige hus, holde mode,
and þær þinne naman on neod secge.
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Ofer þine þa miclan mildheortnesse
and soðfæstnesse samed ætgædere,
þu þinne þone halgan naman neode
gedydest,
ofer us ealle æghwær micelne.
Swa hwylce daga ic þe deorne cige,
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gehyr me hwætlice, and me hraðe gedo
micle mine sawle on þines mægenes sped.
Ealle þe andettan eorðan kyningas,
forðon þe hi gehyrdon hlude reorde
þines muðes þa mæran word;
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þa on sangum singan drihtne.
Forþon þin wuldur is
wide geond eorðan
micel and mære, ofer middaneard
eart þu healice ahafen, drihten;
þu eadmodra ealra locast
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on heofonhame her on eorðan.
þeah þe ic on midle manes gange,
þær me costunga cnysdan geneahhe,
a þu me weredest wraþum feondum
þe me woldan yrre on acyðan;
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þu me geræhtest recene mid handa
and me þin swyðre sneome hælde.
Drihten for me dome gylde,
is his mildheortnes mycel on worulde;
ne forseoh æfre, þæt þu sylfa
ær
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mid þinum handum her geworhtest.
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