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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.

5

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.

10

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,

15

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.

20

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

25

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,

30

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

35

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,

40

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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