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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 4
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


æala, ðu scippend      scirra tungla,
hefones and eorðan!      ðu on heahsetle
ecum ricsast,      and ðu ealne hræðe
hefon ymbhwearfest,      and ðurh ðine halige miht

5

tunglu genedest      þæt hi ðe to herað.
Swylce seo sunne      sweartra nihta
ðiostro adwæsceð      ðurh ðine meht.
Blacum leohte      beorhte steorran
mona gemetgað      ðurh ðinra meahta sped,

10

hwilum eac þa sunnan      sines bereafað
beorhtan leohtes,      þonne hit gebyrigan mæg
þæt swa geneahsne      nede weorðað.
Swelce þone mæran      morgensteorran,
þe we oðre naman      æfensteorra

15

nemnan herað,      ðu genedest þone
þæt he þære sunnan      sið bewitige;
geara gehwelce      he gongan sceal
beforan feran.      Hwæt, ðu, fæder, wercest
sumurlange dagas      swiðe hate,

20

þæm winterdagum      wundrum sceorta
tida getiohhast.      ðu þæm treowum selest
suðan and westan,      þa ær se swearta storm
norðan and eastan      benumen hæfde
leafa gehwelces      ðurh þone laðran wind.

25

Eala hwæt, on eorðan      ealla gesceafta
hyrað ðinre hæse,      doð on heofonum swa some
mode and mægne,      butan men anum,
se wið ðinum willan      wyrceð oftost.
Wel la, ðu eca      and ðu ælmihtiga,

30

ealra gesceafta      sceppend and reccend,
ara ðinum earmum      eorðan tudre,
monna cynne,      ðurh ðinra mehta sped.
Hwi ðu, ece god,      æfre wolde
þæt sio wyrd on gewill      wendan sceolde

35

yflum monnum      ealles swa swiðe?
Hio ful oft dereð      unscyldegum.
Sittað yfele men      giond eorðricu
on heahsetlum,      halige þriccað
under heora fotum;      firum uncuð

40

hwi sio wyrd swa wo      wendan sceolde.
Swa sint gehydde      her on worulde
geond burga fela      beorhte cræftas.
Unrihtwise      eallum tidum
habbað on hospe      ða þe him sindon

45

rihtes wisran,      rices wyrðran;
bið þæt lease lot      lange hwile
bewrigen mid wrencum.      Nu on worulde her
monnum ne deriað      mane aðas.
Gif ðu nu, waldend, ne wilt      wirde steoran,

50

ac on selfwille      sigan lætest,
þonne ic wat þætte wile      woruldmen tweogan
geond foldan sceat      buton fea ane.
Eala, min dryhten,      ðu þe ealle ofersihst
worulde gesceafta,      wlit nu on moncyn

55

mildum eagum,      nu hi on monegum her
worulde yðum      wynnað and swincað,
earme eorðwaran;      ara him nu ða.



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