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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 97

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

     stundum onginnað
fægnian mid folmum      on gefean ælcne;
beorgas blissiað,      beacen oncnawað,
for ansyne      ecean drihtnes;
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forþon he eadig com      eorþan to demanne.
He ymbhwyrft      eorþan demeð
soðe and rihte,      and his syndrig folc
on rihtnesse      ræde gebringeð.