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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 126
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Nymþe hus timbrige halig drihten,
on idel gylp oðre winnað
þe þæs huses hrof staðeliað.
Nymðe gehealde eac halig drihten
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ceastre mid cynnum, ne mæg hi cynlice
wæccende weard gehealdan.
Forhwan ge mid idelnesse ealle arisað,
ærðon leoht cume leoda bearnum?
Arisað nu ricene, and hraðe sittað,
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þa ðe sares hlaf swiðe æton.
þonne he slæp syleð swiðe leofum;
þæt is yrfe eac ecean drihtnes
and herde bearn, þa her mannum beoð
of innaðe ærest cende.
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Swa seo stræle byð strangum and mihtigum
hrorum on handa heard ascyrped,
swa lyðra bearn lungre gewitað.
þæt bið eadig wer, se ðe a þenceð,
þæt he his lust on ðon leofne gefylle;
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ne bið he on ealdre ealre æfre gescended,
þonne he on gaton greteð his grame feondas.