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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 12
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Se þe wille wyrcan      wæstmbære lond,
atio of ðæm æcere      ærest sona
fearn and þornas      and fyrsas swa same,
wiod þa þe willað      welhwær derian

5

clænum hwæte,      þy læs he ciða leas
licge on ðæm lande.      Is leoda gehwæm
ðios oðru bysen      efnbehefu,
þæt is, þætte ðynceð      þegna gehwelcum
huniges bibread      healfe þy swetre,

10

gif he hwene ær      huniges teare
bitres onbyrgeð.      Bið eac swa same
monna æghwilc      micle þy fægenra
liðes weðres,      gif hine lytle ær
stormas gestondað      and se stearca wind

15

norðan and eastan.      Nænegum þuhte
dæg on þonce,      gif sio dimme niht
ær ofer eldum      egesan ne brohte.
Swa þincð anra gehwæm      eorðbuendra
sio soðe gesælð      symle ðe betere

20

and þy wynsumre,      þe he wita ma,
heardra henða,      her adreogeð.
þu meaht eac mycle þy eð      on modsefan
soða gesælða      sweotolor gecnawan,
and to heora cyððe      becuman siððan,

25

gif þu up atyhsð      ærest sona
and ðu awyrtwalast      of gewitlocan
leasa gesælða,      swa swa londes ceorl
of his æcere lycð      yfel weod monig.
Siððan ic ðe secge      þæt þu sweotole meaht

30

soða gesælða      sona oncnawan,
and þu æfre ne recst      æniges ðinges
ofer þa ane,      gif þu hi ealles ongitst.




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