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The Paris Psalter: Psalm 126
Old English originals (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records)
Nymþe hus timbrige halig drihten, on idel gylp oðre winnað þe þæs huses hrof staðeliað. Nymðe gehealde eac halig drihten 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, 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.
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; ne bið he on ealdre ealre æfre gescended, þonne he on gaton greteð his grame feondas.