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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 148
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Heriað ge on heofenum hælend drihten,
heriað hlude on heanessum.
Heriað hine ealle engla ðreatas,
lofige hine swylce eall his leodmægen.
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Herigen hine swylce sunna and mona,
æghwylc steorra and þæt æðele leoht.
Heofenas hine heofena herian georne,
and þa wæter swylce ðe ofer wolcnum synt
on heofenhame, herigen drihten.
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Forðon he sylfa cwæð, sona wærun
wræclice geworht wætera ðryþe,
and gesceapene wærun, þa he sylfa het.
þa he on ecnesse eall staðelade
and on worulda woruld wolde healdan;
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he sette bebod, syþþan heo þæt heoldon.
Herigen dracan swylce drihten of eorðan,
and ealle neowelnessa herian naman drihtnes.
Fyr, forst, hægel and gefeallen snaw,
is and yste, ealra gastas
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þe his word willað wyrcean georne,
Muntas and geswyru, micle beamas,
þa þe mæst and wæstm mannum bringað,
and on eallum cedrum ciið alæded,
Deor and neat, do þæt sniome;
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nifle nædran cynn be naman ealle,
and fugla cynn fiðerum gescyrped,
Eorðcyningas eac ealle swylce
þe folcum her fore wisien
and ealdormen ahwær syndan,
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and ealle þe þas eorþan ahwær demeð.
Beon ge, hægestealdas and glade fæmnan,
ealde and geonge ealle ætsamne;
herian naman drihtnes mid neodlofe.
Forþon his anes nama ofer ealle is
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ahafen healice hæleða ealra;
is upp ahafen his andetness
heah ofer myclum heofone and eorðan.
He horn hefeð holdes folces,
he lofe leohteð leofe þa halgan;
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wese awa frið on Israhela
fælum folce, and hi forð heonan
on his neaweste neode wunian.