The Old Ways

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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 122

Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)

To þe ic mine eagan hof, ece drihten, þu þe heofonhamas healdest and wealdest. Efne mine eagan synt ealra gelicast þonne esne bið, þonne ondrysnum his hlaforde hereð and cwemeð. And swa eagan gað earmre þeowenan, þonne heo on hire hlæfdigean handa locað, swa us synt eagan to ðe, ece drihten, urum þam godan gode; geare lociað, oþþæt us miltsige mihta wealdend. Miltsa us nu ða, mihtig drihten, miltsa us swylce, forþon we manegum synt forhogednessum hearde gefylde. And we manegum synd manna wordum

ure sawl swiðe gefylled mid edwite, oft and geneahhe, and us oferhydige forseoð oft and gelome.