The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 14
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Hwæt bið ðæm welegan woruldgitsere
on his mode ðe bet, þeah he micel age
goldes and gimma and gooda gehwæs,
æhta unrim, and him mon erigen scyle
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æghwelce dæg æcera ðusend,
ðeah ðes middangeard and þis manna cyn
sy under sunnan suð, west and east
his anwalde eall underðieded?
Ne mot he þara hyrsta hionane lædan
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of ðisse worulde wuhte þon mare,
hordgestreona, ðonne he hiðer brohte.
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