The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 24
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Ic hæbbe fiðru fugle swiftran,
mid ðæm ic fleogan mæg feor fram eorðan
ofer heane hrof heofones þisses,
ac ðær ic nu moste mod gefeðran,
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ðinne ferðlocan, feðrum minum,
oððæt ðu meahte þisne middangeard,
ælc eorðlic ðing, eallunga forsion.
Meahtes ofer rodorum gereclice
feðerum lacan, feor up ofer
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wolcnu windan, wlitan siððan
ufan ofer ealle. Meahtes eac faran
ofer ðæm fyre ðe fela geara
for lange betweox lyfte and rodere,
swa him æt frymðe fæder getiode.
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ðu meahtest ðe siððan mid ðære
sunnan
faran betweox oðrum tunglum.
Meahtest ðe full recen on ðæm rodere
ufan
siððan weorðan, and ðonne samtenges
æt ðæm ælcealdan anum steorran,
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se yfmest is eallra tungla,
ðone Saturnus sundbuende
hatað under heofonum; he is se cealda
eallisig tungl, yfemest wandrað
ofer eallum ufan oðrum steorrum.
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Siððan ðu ðonne ðone up a hafast
forð oferfarenne, ðu meaht feorsian;
ðonne bist ðu siððan sona ofer uppan
rodere ryneswiftum. Gif ðu on riht færest,
ðe ðone hehstan heofon behindan lætst,
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ðonne meaht ðu siððan
soðes leohtes
habban þinne dæl, ðonan an cyning
rume ricsað ofer roderum up
and under swa same eallra gesceafta,
weorulde waldeð. þæt is wis cyning,
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þæt is se ðe waldeð giond werðioda
ealra oðra eorðan cyninga,
se mid his bridle ymbebæted
hæfð
ymbhwyrft ealne eorðan and heofones.
He his gewaldleðer wel gemetgað,
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se stioreð a þurg ða strongan meaht
ðæm hrædwæne heofones and eorðan.
Se an dema is gestæððig,
unawendendlic, wlitig and mære.
Gif ðu weorðest on wege rihtum
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up to ðæm earde, þæt is æðele
stow,
ðeah ðu hi nu geta forgiten hæbbe,
gif ðu æfre eft þær an cymest,
ðonne wilt þu secgan and sona cweðan:
"ðis is eallunga min agen cyð,
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eard and eðel. Ic wæs ær hionan
cumen and acenned ðurh ðisses cræftgan
meaht.
Nylle ic æfre hionan ut witan,
ac ic symle her softe wille
mid fæder willan fæste stondan."
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Gif ðe ðonne æfre eft geweorðeð
þæt ðu wilt oððe most weorolde
ðiostro
eft fandian, ðu meaht eaðe gesion
unrihtwise eorðan cyningas
and þa ofermodan oðre rican
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ðe þis werige folc wyrst tuciað,
þæt hi symle bioð swiðe earme,
unmehtige ælces ðinges,
emne ða ilcan þe þis earme folc
sume hwile nu swiðost ondrædæð.
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