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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 112

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Herigean nu cnihtas      hælynd drihten,
and naman dryhtnes      neode herigan.
Wese nama dryhtnes      neode gebletsad
of ðyssan forð      awa to worulde.
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Fram upgange      æryst sunnan
oðþæt heo wende      on westrodur
ge sculon dryhtnes naman      dædum herigean.
He is ofer ealle      ingeþeode
se heahsta      hæleða cynnes,
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is ofer heofenas eac      ahafen his wuldur.
Hwylc ys anlic      urum dryhtne,
þam halgan gode,      þe on heofonrice
eadig eardað,      ofer ealle gesyhð,
þa eadmedu      æghwær begangæð
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on eorðwege,      up on heofenum?
He of eorðan mæg      þone unagan
weccan to willan,      and of woruftorde
þone þearfendan      þriste areccan,
And hine on ealdordom      upp asettan
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his folces fruman      on fæger lif.
Se þe eard seteð      unwæstmbærre
on modor hus      manigra bearna;
hio ofer hire suna      symblað and blissað.