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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 17
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Hwæt, eorðwaran      ealle hæfden,
foldbuende,      fruman gelicne;
hi of anum twæm      ealle comon,
were and wife,      on woruld innan,

5

and hi eac nu get      ealle gelice
on woruld cumað,      wlance and heane.
Nis þæt nan wundor,      forðæm witan ealle
þæt an god is      ealra gesceafta,
frea moncynnes,      fæder and scippend.

10

Se ðære sunnan leoht      seleð of heofonum,
monan and þyssum      mærum steorrum.
Se milda metod      gesceop men on eorðan,
and gesamnade      sawle to lice
æt fruman ærest,      folc under wolcnum

15

emnæðele gesceop      æghwilcne mon.
Hwy ge þonne æfre      ofer oðre men
ofermodigen      buton andweorce,
nu ge unæðelne      nænigne metað?
Hwy ge eow for æþelum      up ahebben,

20

nu on þæm mode bið      monna gehwilcum
þa rihtæþelo      þe ic ðe recce ymb,
nales on ðæm flæsce      foldbuendra?
Ac nu æghwilc mon      þe mid ealle bið
his unþeawum      underðieded,

25

he forlæt ærest      lifes frumsceaft
and his agene      æþelo swa selfe,
and eac þone fæder      þe hine æt fruman gesceop.
Forðæm hine anæþelað      ælmihtig god,
þæt he unæþele      a forð þanan

30

wyrð on weorulde,      to wuldre ne cymð.




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