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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

5

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

10

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

15

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

20

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,

25

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

30

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,

35

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.

40

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,

45

hine þonne æghwonan      ælmihtig good
singallice      simle gehealdeð
anwunigendne      his agenum
modes gesælðum      þurh metodes gife,
þeah hine se wind      woruldearfoða

50

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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