The Paris Psalter: Psalm 51

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

fore ænigre         egesan næfde,
ne him fultum þær         fæstne gelyfde;
ac he on his welan spede         wræste getruwode,
and on idel gylp         ealra geornost.

5

Ic þonne swa elebeam         up weaxende
on godes huse         ece gewene,
and on milde mod         mines drihtnes,
and me þæt to worulde         wat to helpe.
Ic þe andette         awa to feore

10

on þære worulde         ðe þu geworhtest her;
forþan þu eart se gooda,         gleaw on gesyhðe,
þe þinne held curan,         þara haligra.