The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 21
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Wel la, monna bearn geond middangeard,
friora æghwilc fundie to
þæm ecum gode þe we ymb sprecað,
and to þæm gesælðum þe
we secgað ymb.
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Se ðe ðonne nu sie nearwe gehefted
mid þisses mæran middangeardes
unnyttre lufe, sece him eft hræðe
fulne friodom, þæt he forð cume
to þæm gesælðum saula rædes.
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Forþæm þæt is sio an rest eallra
geswinca,
hyhtlicu hyð heaum ceolum
modes usses, meresmylta wic.
þæt is sio an hyð þe æfre
bið
æfter þam yðum ura geswinca,
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ysta gehwelcre, ealnig smylte.
þæt is sio friðstow and sio frofor
an
eallra yrminga æfter þissum
weoruldgeswincum. þæt is wynsum stow
æfter þyssum yrmðum to aganne.
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Ac ic georne wat þætte gylden maðm,
sylofren sincstan, searogimma nan,
middangeardes wela modes eagan
æfre ne onlyhtað, auht ne gebetað
hiora scearpnesse to þære sceawunga
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soðra gesælða, ac hi swiðor get
monna gehwelces modes eagan
ablendað on breostum, þonne hi hi beorhtran
gedon.
Forðæm æghwilc ðing þe on
þys andweardan
life licað lænu sindon,
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eorðlicu þing a fleondu.
Ac þæt is wundorlic wlite and beorhtnes
þe wuhta gehwæs wlite geberhteð,
and æfter þæm eallum wealdeð.
Nele se waldend ðæt forweorðan scylen
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saula usse, ac he hi selfa wile
leoman onlihtan, lifes wealdend.
Gif þonne hæleða hwilc hlutrum eagum
modes sines mæg æfre ofsion
hiofones leohtes hlutre beorhto,
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þonne wile he secgan þæt ðære
sunnan sie
beorhtnes þiostro beorna gehwylcum
to metanne wið þæt micle leoht
godes ælmihtiges; þæt is gasta gehwæm
ece butan ende eadegum saulum.
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