The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 20
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Eala, min drihten, þæt þu eart ælmihtig,
micel, modilic, mærþum gefræge,
and wundorlic witena gehwylcum.
Hwæt, ðu, ece god, ealra gesceafta
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wundorlice wel gesceope,
ungesewenlica, and eac swa same
gesewenlicra softe wealdest
scirra gesceafta mid gesceadwisum
mægne and cræfte. þu þysne
middangeard
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from fruman ærest forð oð ende
tidum totældes, swa hit getæsost wæs,
endebyrdes, þæt hi æghwæðer
ge ær farað ge eft cumað.
þu þe unstilla agna gesceafta
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to ðinum willan wislice astyrest,
and þe self wunæst swiðe stille
unanwendendlic a forð simle.
Nis nan mihtigra ne nan mærra
ne geond ealle þa gesceaft efnlica þin,
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ne þe ænig nedþearf næs æfre
giet
ealra þara weorca þe þu geworht hafast;
ac mid þinum willan þu hit worhtes eall,
and mid anwalde þinum agenum
weorulde geworhtest and wuhta gehwæt,
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þeah ðe nænegu nedðearf wære
eallra þara mærþa. Is ðæt
micel gecynd
þines goodes, þencð ymb se ðe wile,
forðon hit is eall an ælces þincges,
þu and þæt ðin good. Hit is þin
agen,
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forðæm hit his utan ne com auht to ðe,
ac ic georne wat þæt ðin goodnes is,
ælmihtig good, eall mid ðe selfum.
Hit is ungelic urum gecynde;
us is utan cymen eall þa we habbað
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gooda on grundum from gode selfum.
Næfst þu to ænegum andan genumenne,
forðam þe nan þing nis þin gelica,
ne huru ænig ælcræftigre,
forðæm þu ealgood anes geþeahte
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þines geþohtest, and hi þa worhtest.
Næs æror ðe ænegu
gesceaft
þe auht oððe nauht auðer worhte,
ac ðu butan bysne, brego moncynnes,
ælmihtig god, eall geworhtest
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þing þearle good; eart þe selfa
þæt hehste good. Hwæt, ðu, halig
fæder,
æfter þinum willan woruld gesceope,
ðisne middangeard, meahtum þinum,
weorada drihten, swa þu woldest self,
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and mid ðinum willan wealdest ealles;
forðæm þu, soða god, selfa dælest
gooda æghwilc. Forðæm þu geara
ær
ealla gesceafta ærest gesceope
swiðe gelice, sumes hwæðre þeah
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ungelice, nemdest eall swa ðeah
mid ane noman ealle togædre
woruld under wolcnum. Hwæt, þu, wuldres
god,
þone anne naman eft todældes,
fæder, on feower; wæs þara folde
an
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and wæter oðer worulde dæles,
and fyr is þridde and feowerðe lyft;
þæt is eall weoruld eft togædere.
Habbað þeah þa feower frumstol hiora,
æghwilc hiora agenne stede,
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þeah anra hwilc wið oðer sie
miclum gemenged, and mid mægne eac
fæder ælmihtiges fæste gebunden
gesiblice softe togædre
mid bebode þine, bilewit fæder,
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þætte heora ænig oðres ne dorste
mearce ofergangan for metodes ege;
ac geþweorod sint ðegnas togædre,
cyninges cempan, cele wið hæto,
wæt wið drygum, winnað hwæðre.
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Wæter and eorðe wæstmas brengað;
þa sint on gecynde cealda ba twa,
wæter wæt and ceald. Wangas ymbelicgað,
eorðe ælgreno, eac hwæðre ceald.
Lyft is gemenged, forþæm hio on middum
wunað;
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nis þæt nan wundor þæt hio
sie wearm and ceald,
wæt wolcnes tier, winde geblonden,
forðæm hio is on midle, mine gefræge,
fyres and eorðan. Fela monna wat
þætte yfemest is eallra gesceafta
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fyr ofer eorðan, folde neoðemest.
Is þæt wundorlic, weroda drihten,
þæt ðu mid geþeahte þinum
wyrcest
þæt ðu þæm gesceaftum swa
gesceadlice
mearce gesettest, and hi gemengdest
eac.
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Hwæt, ðu þæm wættere wætum
and cealdum
foldan to flore fæste gesettest,
forðæm hit unstille æghwider wolde
wide toscriðan wac and hnesce.
Ne meahte hit on him selfum, soð ic geare wat,
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æfre gestandan, ac hit sio eorðe hylt
and swelgeð eac be sumum dæle,
þæt hio siðþan mæg for
ðæm sype weorðan
geleht lyftum. Forðæm leaf and gærs
bræd geond Bretene, bloweð and groweð
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eldum to are. Eorðe sio cealde
brengð wæstma fela wundorlicra,
forðæm hio mid þæm wætere
weorðað geþawened.
Gif þæt nære, þonne hio wære
fordrugod to duste and todrifen siððan
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wide mid winde, swa nu weorðað oft
axe giond eorðan eall toblawen.
Ne meahte on ðære eorðan awuht libban,
ne wuhte þon ma wætres brucan,
on eardian ænige cræfte
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for cele anum, gif þu, cyning engla,
wið fyre hwæthwugu foldan and lagustream
ne mengdest togædre, and gemetgodest
cele and hæto cræfte þine,
þæt þæt fyr ne mæg foldan
and merestream
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blate forbærnan, þeah hit wið ba twa
sie
fæste gefeged, fæder ealdgeweorc.
Ne þincð me þæt wundur wuhte
þe læsse
þæt ðios eorðe mæg and egorstream,
swa ceald gesceaft, cræfta nane
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ealles adwæscan þæt þæt
him on innan sticað
fyres gefeged mid frean cræfte.
þæt is agen cræft eagorstreames,
wætres and eorþan, and on wolcnum eac,
and efne swa same uppe ofer rodere.
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þonne is þæs fyres frumstol on riht,
eard ofer eallum oðrum gesceaftum
gesewenlicum geond þisne sidan grund;
þeah hit wið ealla sie eft gemenged
weoruldgesceafta, þeah waldan ne mot
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þæt hit ænige eallunga fordo
butan þæs leafe þe us þis lif
tiode,
þæt is se eca and se ælmihtga.
Eorðe is hefigre oðrum gesceaftum,
þicre geþuren, forðæm
hio þrage stod
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ealra gesceafta under niðemæst,
buton þæm rodere, þe þas ruman
gesceaft
æghwylce dæge utan ymbhwyrfeð,
and þeah þære eorðan æfre
ne oðrineð,
ne hire on nanre ne mot near þonne on oðre
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stowe gestæppan; striceð ymbutan
ufane and neoðane, efenneah gehwæðer.
æghwilc gesceaft þe we ymb sprecað
hæfð his agenne eard onsundran,
bið þeah wið þæm oðrum
eac gemenged.
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Ne mæg hira ænig butan oðrum bion.
þeah hi unsweotole somod eardien,
swa nu eorðe and wæter earfoðtæcne
unwisra gehwæm wuniað on fyre,
þeah hi sindan sweotole þæm
wisum.
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Is þæt fyr swa same fæst on þæm
wætre
and on stanum eac stille geheded
earfoðhawe, is hwæðre þær.
Hafað fæder engla fyr gebunden
efne to þon fæste þæt hit fiolan
ne mæg
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eft æt his eðle, þær þæt
oðer fyr
up ofer eall þis eardfæst wunað.
Sona hit forlæteð þas lænan gesceaft,
mid cele ofercumen, gif hit on cyððe gewit,
and þeah wuhta gehwilc wilnað þiderweard
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þær his mægðe bið mæst
ætgædre.
þu gestaðoladest þurh þa strongan
meaht,
weroda wuldorcyning, wundorlice
eorðan swa fæste þæt hio on ænige
healfe ne heldeð; ne mæg hio hider ne þider
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sigan þe swiðor þe hio symle dyde.
Hwæt, hi þeah eorðlices auht ne haldeð,
is þeah efneðe up and of dune
to feallanne foldan ðisse,
þæm anlicost þe on æge bið,
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gioleca on middan, glideð hwæðre
æg ymbutan. Swa stent eall weoruld
stille on tille, streamas ymbutan,
lagufloda gelac, lyfte and tungla,
and sio scire scell scriðeð ymbutan
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dogora gehwilce; dyde lange swa.
Hwæt, þu, ðioda god, ðriefalde
on us
sawle gesettest, and hi siððan eac
styrest and stihtest þurh ða strongan meaht,
þæt hire þy læsse on ðæm
lytlan ne bið
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anum fingre þe hire on eallum bið
þæm lichoman. Forðæm ic lytle
ær
sweotole sæde þæt sio sawl wære
þriefald gesceaft þegna gehwilces,
forðæm uðwitan ealle seggað
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ðætte an gecynd ælcre saule
irsung sie, oðer wilnung;
is sio ðridde gecynd þæm twæm
betere,
sio gesceadwisnes. Nis ðæt scandlic cræft,
forðæm hit nænig hafað neat buton
monnum.
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Hæfð þa oðra twa unrim wuhta;
hæfð þa wilnunga welhwilc neten
and þa yrsunga eac swa selfe.
Forðy men habbæð geond middangeard
eorðgesceafta ealla oferþungen,
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forðæm ðe hi habbað, þæs
ðe hi nabbað,
þone ænne cræft þe we ær
nemdon.
Sio gesceadwisnes sceal on gehwelcum
þære wilnunge waldan semle,
and irsunge eac swa selfe;
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hio sceal mid geþeahte þegnes mode,
mid andgite, ealles waldan.
Hio is þæt mæste mægen monnes
saule
and se selesta sundorcræfta.
Hwæt, þu ða saule, sigora waldend,
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þeoda þrymcyning, þus gesceope,
þæt hio hwearfode on hire selfre
hire utan ymb, swa swa eal deð
rineswifte rodor, recene ymbscriðeð
dogora gehwilce drihtnes meahtum
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þisne middangeard. Swa deð monnes saul,
hweole gelicost, hwærfeð ymbe hy selfe,
oft smeagende ymb ðas eorðlican
drihtnes gesceafta dagum and nihtum.
Hwilum ymb hi selfe secende smeað,
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hwilum eft smeað ymb þone ecan god,
sceppend hire. Scriðende færð,
hweole gelicost, hwærfð ymb hi selfe.
þonne hio ymb hire scyppend mid gescead smeað,
hio bið up ahæfen ofer hi selfe,
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ac hio bið eallunga an hire selfre,
þonne hio ymb hi selfe secende smeað;
hio bið swiðe fior hire selfre beneoðan,
þonne hio þæs lænan lufað
and wundrað
eorðlicu þing ofer ecne ræd.
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Hwæt, þu, ece god, eard forgeafe
saulum on heofonum, selest weorðlica
ginfæsta gifa, god ælmihtig,
be geearnunga anra gehwelcre.
Ealle hi scinað ðurh þa sciran neaht
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hadre on heofonum, na hwæðre þeah
ealle efenbeorhte. Hwæt, we oft gesioð
hadrum nihtum þætte heofonsteorran
ealle efenbeorhte æfre ne scinað.
Hwæt, þu, ece god, eac gemengest
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þa heofoncundan hider wið eorðan,
saula wið lice; siððan wuniað
þis eorðlice and þæt ece samod,
saul in flæsce. Hwæt, hi simle to ðe
hionan fundiað; forðæm
hi hider of ðe
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æror comon, sculon eft to ðe.
Sceal se lichama last weardigan
eft on eorðan, forðæm he ær of
hire
weox on weorulde. Wunedon ætsomne
efen swa lange swa him lyfed wæs
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from þæm ælmihtigan, þe hi
æror gio
gesomnade, þæt is soð cining.
Se þas foldan gesceop and hi gefylde þa
swiðe mislicum, mine gefræge,
neata cynnum, nergend user.
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He hi siððan asiow sæda monegum
wuda and wyrta weorulde sceatum.
Forgif nu, ece god, urum modum,
þæt hi moten to þe, metod alwuhta,
þurg þas earfoðu up astigan,
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and of þisum bysegum, bilewit fæder,
þeoda waldend, to ðe cuman,
and þonne mid openum eagum moten
modes ures, ðurh ðinra mægna sped,
æwelm gesion eallra gooda,
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þæt þu eart selfa sigedrihten god,
ge þa eagan hal ures modes,
þæt we hi on ðe selfum siððan
moten
afæstnian. Fæder engla, todrif
þone þiccan mist þe þrage nu
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wið þa eagan foran usses modes
hangode hwyle, hefig and þystre.
Onliht nu þa eagan usses modes
mid þinum leohte, lifes waldend,
forðæm þu eart sio birhtu, bilewit
fæder,
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soðes leohtes, and þu selfa eart
sio fæste ræst, fæder ælmihtig,
eallra soðfæstra. Hwæt, þu softe
gedest
þæt hi ðe selfne gesion moten.
þu eart eallra þinga, þeoda waldend,
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fruma and ende. Hwæt, þu, fæder engla,
eall þing birest eðelice
buton geswince. þu eart selfa weg
and latteow eac lifgendra gehwæs,
and sio wlitige stow þe se weg to ligð,
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þe ealle to a fundiað
men of moldan on þa mæran gesceaft.
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