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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 19
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Eala, þæt is hefig dysig,      hygeð ymbe se ðe wile,
and frecenlic      fira gehwilcum
þæt ða earman men      mid ealle gedwæleð,
of ðæm rihtan wege      recene alæded.

5

Hwæðer ge willen      on wuda secan
gold ðæt reade      on grenum triowum?
Ic wat swa ðeah      þæt hit witena nan
þider ne seceð,      forðæm hit þær ne wexð,
ne on wingeardum      wlitige gimmas.

10

Hwy ge nu ne settan      on sume dune
fiscnet eowru,      þonne eow fon lysteð
leax oððe cyperan?      Me gelicost ðincð
þætte ealle witen      eorðbuende
þoncolmode      ðæt hi þær ne sint.

15

Hwæþer ge nu willen      wæþan mid hundum
on sealtne sæ,      þonne eow secan lyst
heorotas and hinda?      þu gehicgan meaht
þæt ge willað ða      on wuda secan
oftor micle      þonne ut on sæ.

20

Is ðæt wundorlic,      þæt we witan ealle,
þæt mon secan sceal      be sæwaroðe
and be eaofrum      æþele gimmas,
hwite and reade      and hiwa gehwæs.
Hwæt, hi eac witon      hwær hi eafiscas

25

secan þurfan,      and swylcra fela
weoruldwelena;      hi þæt wel doð,
geornfulle men,      geara gehwilce.
Ac ðæt is earmlicost      ealra þinga
þæt þa dysegan sint      on gedwolan wordene,

30

efne swa blinde      þæt hi on breostum ne magon
eaðe gecnawan      hwær þa ecan good,
soða gesælða,      sindon gehydda.
Forþæm hi æfre ne lyst      æfter spyrian,
secan þa gesælða.      Wenað samwise

35

þæt hi on ðis lænan mægen      life findan
soða gesælða,      þæt is selfa god.
Ic nat hu ic mæge      nænige ðinga
ealles swa swiðe      on sefan minum
hiora dysig tælan      swa hit me don lysteð,

40

ne ic þe swa sweotole      gesecgan ne mæg,
forðæm hi sint earmran      and eac dysegran,
ungesæligran,      þonne ic þe secgan mæge.
Hi wilniað      welan and æhta
and weorðscipes      to gewinnanne;

45

þonne hi habbað      þæt hiora hige seceð,
wenað þonne      swa gewitlease
ðæt hi þa soðan      gesælða hæbben.




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