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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 5
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


ðu meaht be ðære sunnan      sweotole geþencean
and be æghwelcum      oðrum steorran
þara þe æfter burgum      beorhtost scineð.
Gif him wan fore      wolcen hangað,

5

ne mægen hi swa leohtne      leoman ansendan,
ær se þicca mist      þynra weorðe.
Swa oft smylte sæ      suðerne wind
græge glashlutre      grimme gedrefeð,
þonne hie gemengað      micla ysta,

10

onhrerað hronmere;      hrioh bið þonne
seo þe ær gladu      onsiene wæs.
Swa oft æspringe      ut awealleð
of clife harum      col and hlutor,
and gereclice      rihte floweð,

15

irneð wið his eardes,      oð him on innan felð
muntes mægenstan,      and him on middan geligeð,
atrendlod of ðæm torre.      He on tu siððan
tosceaden wyrð,      scir bið gedrefed,
burna geblonden,      broc bið onwended

20

of his rihtryne,      ryðum toflowen.
Swa nu þa þiostro      þinre heortan
willað minre leohtan      lare wiðstondan
and ðin modgeþonc      miclum gedrefan.
Ac gif ðu nu wilnast,      þæt ðu wel mæge,

25

þæt soðe leoht      sweotole oncnawan,
leohte geleafan,      ðu forlætan scealt
idle ofersælða,      unnytne gefean.
þu scealt eac yfelne ege      an forlætan,
woruldearfoða,      ne most ðu wesan for ðæm

30

ealles to ormod,      ne ðu ðe æfre ne læt
wlenca gewæcan,      þe læs þu weorðe for him
mid ofermettum      eft gescended,
and to up ahafen      for orsorgum
woruldgesælðum,      ne eft to waclice

35

geortreowe      æniges godes,
þonne þe for worulde      wiðerwearda mæsð
þinga þreage      and þu ðe selfum
swiðost onsitte.      Forðæm simle bið
se modsefa      miclum gebunden

40

mid gedrefnesse,      gif hine dreccean mot
þissa yfla hwæðer,      innan swencan.
Forðæm þa twegen tregan      teoð tosomne
wið þæt mod foran      mistes dwoleman,
þæt hit seo ece ne mot      innan geondscinan

45

sunne for ðæm sweartum mistum,      ærðæm hi geswiðrad weorðen.




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