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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."