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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 114

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Ic lufie þe,      leofa drihten,
forþan þu mines gebedes      bene gehyrdest.
And þu þin eare to me      eadmodlice
hold ahyldest      and gehyrdest me,
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þa ic þe on dagum minum      dyrne cigde.
þar me ymbsealde      swylde deaðes,
and me frecne ætfeah      fyrhtu helle.
Me costung and sar      cnyssedan geneahhe,
þonne ic naman drihtnes      nyde cigde.
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Eala þu leofa god,      alys mine nu
sawle on gesyntum;      ic to soþan wat,
þæt þu wære mildheort,      mihtig dryhten,
and ure god      æghwæs soðfæst;
mihta us þine      milde weorðan.
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Drihten gehealdeð      dome þa lytlan;
ic hean gewearð,      he me hraðe lysde.
Gecyr mine sawle      clæne on þine
rædæs reste,      rice drihten;
þu me wel dydest      on woruldlife.
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Forþon þu mine sawle      sylfa generedyst,
and hig of deopum      deaþe gelæddest;
eagan mine wið tearum      æghwær geheolde
and fet mine      wið færslide;
ic gelicie      leofum drihtne
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on lifigendra      lande nu ða.