The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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
sæ
and ealra þara þe ðær in wuniað,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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);
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gif se ðioden læt þa toslupan,
sona hi forlætað lufan and sibbe,
ðæs geferscipes freondrædenne;
tilaþ anra gehwilc agnes willan,
woruldgesceafta winnað betweox him,
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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,
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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
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untweofealde treowa gehealdað,
sibbe samrade. Eala, sigora god,
wære þis moncyn miclum
gesælig,
gif hiora modsefa meahte weorðan
staðolfæst gereaht þurh þa strongan
meaht,
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and geendebyrd, swa swa oðra sint
woruldgesceafta. Wære hit, la, þonne
murge mid monnum, gif hit meahte swa.
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