The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 7
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
ða ongon se wisdom his gewunan fylgan,
gliowordum gol, gyd æfter spelle,
song soðcwida sumne þa geta,
cwæð þæt he ne herde þæt
on heane munt
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monna ænig meahte asettan
healle hroffæste. Ne þearf eac hæleða
nan
wenan þæs weorces, þæt he wisdom
mæge
wið ofermetta æfre gemengan.
Herdes þu æfre þætte ænig
mon
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on sondbeorgas settan meahte
fæste healle? Ne mæg eac fira nan
wisdom timbran þær ðær woruldgitsung
beorg oferbrædeð. Baru sond willað
ren forswelgan; swa deð ricra nu
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grundleas gitsung gilpes and æhta,
gedrinceð to dryggum dreosendne welan,
and þeah þæs þearfan ne bið
þurst aceled.
Ne mæg hæleþa gehwæm hus on
munte
lange gelæstan, forðæm him lungre on
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swift wind swapeð. Ne bið sond þon ma
wið micelne ren manna ængum
huses hirde, ac hit hreosan wile,
sigan sond æfter rene. Swa bioð anra gehwæs
monna modsefan miclum awegede,
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of hiora stede styrede, þonne hi
strong dreceð
wind under wolcnum woruldearfoða,
oþþe hi eft se reða
ren onhrereð
sumes ymbhogan, ungemet gemen.
Ac se ðe þa ecan agan wille
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soðan gesælða, he sceal swiðe flion
ðisse worulde wlite, wyrce him siððan
his modes hus, þær he mæge findan
eaðmetta stan unigmet fæstne,
grundweal gearone; se toglidan ne þearf,
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þeah hit wecge wind woruldearfoða
oððe ymbhogena ormete ren,
forþæm on þære dene drihten
selfa
þara eadmetta eardfæst wunigað,
þær se wisdom a wunað on gemyndum.
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Forðon orsorg lif ealnig lædað
woruldmen wise buton wendinge.
þonne he eall forsihð eorðlicu good,
and eac þara yfela orsorh wunað,
hopað to þæm ecum þe þær
æfter cumað,
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hine þonne æghwonan ælmihtig good
singallice simle gehealdeð
anwunigendne his agenum
modes gesælðum þurh metodes gife,
þeah hine se wind woruldearfoða
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swiðe swence, and hine singale
gemen gæle, þonne him grimme on
woruldsælða wind wraðe blaweð,
þeah þe hine ealneg se ymbhoga
ðyssa woruldsælða wraðe drecce.
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