The Paris Psalter: Psalm 141 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.5.141 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Poems The Paris Psalter: Psalm 141
min stefn to þe styrmeþ drihten and ic mid strangere stefne swylce eam biddende bealde drihten
ic mine bene bealde swylce on his gesihþe symble ageote and mine earfeþu ealle full georne fore him sylfum sæcge geneahhe
gif mine grame þenceaþ gast teorian and þu mine stige strange ongeate
on þyssum grenan wege þe ic gange on me oferhydige æghwær setton gearwe grine geara ic sceawade geseah on þa swyþran ne me sylfne þær ænig mid gode ongitan wolde
þa me eac frecne fram fleam gedydan næs þa þe mine sawle secean wolde þa ic to þe drihten digle cleopode and sona cwæþ þu eart min se soþa hiht eart þu on lifigendra lande swylce se gedefa dæl drihten æghwær
beheald mine sawle hæleþa wealdend forþon ic geeadmeded eom ungemete swiþe
alys me fram laþum hi me lungre synt ealle ofer me ungemete strange
alæd me of carcernes cluse swylce mine sawle þæt ic syþþan forþ þinne naman mote neode sæcgean
min soþfæste snotere bidaþ oþþæt þu me edlean eft forgylde