He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Þe Lord foond hym in a deseert lond, þat is, priued of Goddis religioun, in þe place of orrour ethir hidousnesse, and of wast wildirnesse; þe Lord ledde hym aboute, and tauyte hym, and kepte as þe apple of his iye.