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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 11
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


An sceppend is      butan ælcum tweon.
Se is eac wealdend      woruldgesceafta,
heofones and eorðan      and heare
and ealra þara      þe ðær in wuniað,

5

ungesæwenlicra,      and eac swa same
ðara ðe we eagum      on lociað,
ealra gesceafta.      Se is ælmihtig,
þæm oleccað      ealle gesceafte
þe þæs ambehtes      awuht cunnon,

10

ge eac swa same      þa ðæs auht nyton
þæt hi þæs ðeodnes      þeowas sindon.
Se us gesette      sido and þeawas,
eallum gesceaftum      unawendende,
singallice      sibbe gecynde,

15

þa þa he wolde,      þæt þæt he wolde,
swa lange swa he wolde      þæt hit wesan sceolde.
Swa hit eac to worulde      sceal wunian forð,
forþæm æfre ne magon      þa unstillan
woruldgesceafta      weorðan gestilde,

20

of ðæm ryne onwend      ðe him rodera weard
endebyrdes      eallum gesette.
Hæfð se alwealda      ealle gesceafta
gebæt mid his bridle,      hafað butu gedon,
ealle gemanode      and eac getogen,

25

þæt hi ne moten      ofer metodes est
æfre gestillan,      ne eft eallunga
swiðor stirian,      þonne him sigora weard
his gewealdleðer      wille onlæten.
He hafað þe bridle      butu befangen

30

heofon and eorðan      and eall holma begong.
Swa hæfð geheaðærod      hefonrices weard
mid his anwealde      ealle gesceafta,
þæt hiora æghwilc      wið oðer winð,
and þeah winnende      wreðiað fæste,

35

æghwilc oðer      utan ymbclyppeð,
þy læs hi toswifen.      Forðæm hi symle sculon
ðone ilcan ryne      eft gecyrran
þe æt frymðe      fæder getiode,
and swa edniwe      eft gewiorðan.

40

Swa hit nu fagað,      frean ealdgeweorc,
þætte winnende      wiðerweard gesceaft
fæste sibbe      forð anhealdað.
Swa nu fyr and wæter,      folde and lagustream,
manigu oðru gesceaft      efnswiðe him

45

giond þas widan worulde      winnað betweox him,
and swa þeah magon      hiora þegnunga
and geferscipe      fæste gehealdan.
Nis hit no þæt an      þæt swa eaðe mæg
wiðerweard gesceaft      wesan ætgædere

50

symbel geferan,      ac hit is sellicre
þæt hiora ænig ne mæg      butan oþrum bion.
Ac sceal wuhta gehwilc      wiðerweardes hwæthwugu
habban under heofonum,      þæt his hige durre
gemetgian,      ær hit to micel weorðe.

55

Hæfð se ælmihtiga      eallum gesceaftum
ðæt gewrixle geset      þe nu wunian sceal,
wyrta growan,      leaf grenian,
þæt on hærfest eft      hrest and wealuwað.
Winter bringeð      weder ungemet cald,

60

swifte windas.      Sumor æfter cymeð,
wearm gewideru.      Hwæt, þa wonnan niht
mona onlihteð,      oððæt monnum dæg
sunne bringeð      giond þas sidan gesceaft.
Hæfð se ilca god      eorðan and wætere

65

mearce gesette.      Merestream ne dear
ofer eorðan sceat      eard gebrædan
fisca cynne      butan frean leafe,
ne hio æfre ne mot      eorðan þyrscwold
up ofersteppan,      ne ða ebban þon ma

70

foldes mearce      oferfaran moton.
þa gesetnessa      sigora wealdend,
lifes leohtfruma,      læt þenden he wile
geond þas mæran gesceaft      mearce healden.
Ac þonne se eca      and se ælmihtiga

75

þa gewealdleðeru      wile onlætan
efne þara bridla      þe he gebætte mid
his agen weorc      eall æt frymðe,
(þæt is wiðerweardnes      wuhte gehwelcre
þe we mid þæm bridle      becnan tiliað);

80

gif se ðioden læt      þa toslupan,
sona hi forlætað      lufan and sibbe,
ðæs geferscipes      freondrædenne;
tilaþ anra gehwilc      agnes willan,
woruldgesceafta      winnað betweox him,

85

oððæt ðios eorðe      eall forweorðeð,
and eac swa same      oðra gesceafta
weorðað him selfe      siððan to nauhte.
Ac se ilca god,      se þæt eall metgað,
se gefehð fela      folca tosomne,

90

and mid freondscipe      fæste gegadrað,
gesamnað sinscipas,      sibbe gemengeð,
clænlice lufe.      Swa se cræftga eac
geferscipas      fæste gesamnað,
þæt hi hiora freondscipe      forð on symbel

95

untweofealde      treowa gehealdað,
sibbe samrade.      Eala, sigora god,
wære þis moncyn      miclum gesælig,
gif hiora modsefa      meahte weorðan
staðolfæst gereaht      þurh þa strongan meaht,

100

and geendebyrd,      swa swa oðra sint
woruldgesceafta.      Wære hit, la, þonne
murge mid monnum,      gif hit meahte swa.




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