The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 10
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Gif nu hæleða hwone hlisan lyste,
unnytne gelp agan wille,
þonne ic hine wolde wordum biddan
þæt he hine æghwonon utan ymbeþohte,
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sweotole ymbsawe, suð, east and west,
hu widgil sint wolcnum ymbutan
heofones hwealfe. Higesnotrum mæg
eaðe ðincan þæt þeos eorðe
sie
eall for ðæt oðer unigmet lytel;
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þeah hio unwisum widgel þince,
on stede stronglic steorleasum men,
þeah mæg þone wisan on gewitlocan
þære gitsunge gelpes scamian,
ðonne hine þæs hlisan heardost lysteð,
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and he þeah ne mæg þone tobredan
ofer ðas nearowan nænige ðinga
eorðan sceatas; is ðæt unnet gelp!
Eala, ofermodan, hwi eow a lyste
mid eowrum swiran selfra willum
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þæt swære gioc symle underlutan?
Hwy ge ymb ðæt unnet ealnig swincen,
þæt ge þone hlisan habban tiliað
ofer ðioda ma þonne eow þearf sie?
þeah eow nu gesæle þæt eow
suð oððe norð
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þa ytmestan eorðbuende
on monig ðiodisc miclum herien,
ðeah hwa æðele sie eorlgebyrdum,
welum geweorðad, and on wlencum
ðio,
duguðum diore, deað þæs ne scrifeð,
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þonne him rum forlæt rodora waldend,
ac he þone welegan wædlum gelice
efnmærne gedeð ælces þinges.
Hwær sint nu þæs wisan Welandes ban,
þæs goldsmiðes, þe wæs
geo mærost?
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Forþy ic cwæð þæs wisan
Welandes ban,
forðy ængum ne mæg eorðbuendra
se cræft losian þe him Crist onlænð.
Ne mæg mon æfre þy eð ænne
wræccan
his cræftes beniman, þe mon oncerran mæg
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sunnan onswifan, and ðisne swiftan rodor
of his rihtryne rinca ænig.
Hwa wat nu þæs wisan Welandes ban,
on hwelcum hi hlæwa hrusan þeccen?
Hwær is nu se rica Romana wita,
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and se aroda, þe we ymb sprecað,
hiora heretoga, se gehaten wæs
mid þæm burgwarum Brutus nemned?
Hwær is eac se wisa and se weorðgeorna
and se fæstræda folces hyrde,
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se wæs uðwita ælces ðinges,
cene and cræftig, ðæm wæs Caton
nama?
Hi wæron gefyrn forðgewitene;
nat nænig mon hwær hi nu sindon.
Hwæt is hiora here buton se hlisa an?
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Se is eac to lytel swelcra lariowa,
forðæm þa magorincas maran wyrðe
wæron on worulde. Ac hit is wyrse nu,
þæt geond þas eorðan æghwær
sindon
hiora gelican hwon ymbspræce,
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sume openlice ealle forgitene,
þæt hi se hlisa hiwcuðe ne mæg
foremære weras forð gebrengan.
þeah ge nu wenen and wilnigen
þæt ge lange tid libban moten,
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hwæt iow æfre þy bet bio oððe
þince?
Forðæm þe nane forlet, þeah hit
lang ðince,
deað æfter dogorrime, þonne he hæfð
drihtnes leafe.
Hwæt þonne hæbbe hæleþa
ænig,
guma æt þæm gilpe, gif hine gegripan
mot
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se eca deað æfter þissum worulde?
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