The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 18
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Eala ðæt se yfla unrihta gedeð
wraða willa wohhæmetes,
þæt he mid ealle gedræfð anra
gehwylces
monna cynnes mod fulneah ðon.
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Hwæt, sio wilde beo, þeah wis sie,
anunga sceal eall forweorðan
gif hio yrringa awuht stingeð.
Swa sceal sawla gehwilc siððan losian,
gif se lichoma forlegen weorðeð
10
unrihthæmede, bute him ær cume
hreow to heortan, ær he hionan wende.
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