The Ormulum / with the notes and glossary of R.M. White ; edited by Robert Holt.

                                
                                  Þatt follc, þatt lefeþþ uppo Godd,
                                
                                  & cnaweþþ Godd & þewwteþþ·
                                
                                  & tiss lihht shineþþ ec o þa
                                
                                  Þatt all þiss lihht forrwerrpenn,
                                
                                  Acc hemm ne cumeþþ rihht na god
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                                  Off þatt itt onn hemm shineþþ;
                                
                                  Itt shineþþ upponn hemm inoh,
                                
                                  Þurrh þatt teȝȝ sen & herenn
                                
                                  All þatt unnseȝȝenndlike god
                                
                                  Þatt comm þurrh Crist to manne,
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                                  Acc hemm ne cumeþþ rihht na god
                                
                                  Off þatt itt onn hemm shineþþ,
                                
                                  Acc mikell ifell cumeþþ hemm
                                
                                  All þurrh rihht dom þæroffe.
                                
                                  Forr swa þeȝȝ mare herenn & sen
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                                  Off Cristess rihhtwisnesse,
                                
                                  Swa shulenn þeȝȝ þurrh Jesu Crist
                                
                                  All þurrh rihht dom ben demmde,
                                
                                  To dreȝhenn wiþþ þe laþe gast
                                
                                  All þess te mare pine,
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                                  Ȝiff þatt iss þatt hemm nohht niss off
                                
                                  To follȝhenn Cristess lare,
                                
                                  & ȝiff þatt teȝȝ ne kepenn nohht
                                
                                  Noff Crist, noff Cristess moderr.
                                
                                  Soþ heffness lihht shineþþ uppo
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                                  Þe trowwþelæse lede,
                                
                                  Acc hemm ne cumeþþ rihht nan god
                                
                                  Off þatt itt onn hemm shineþþ,
                                
                                  All all swa summ þe sŭnebæm
                                
                                  Bishineþþ all þe blinde,

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Title: The Ormulum / with the notes and glossary of R.M. White ; edited by Robert Holt.
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Publication: Oxford :: At the Clarendon Press,; 1878.

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