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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 28
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Hwa is on eorðan      nu unlærdra
þe ne wundrige      wolcna færeldes,
rodres swifto,      ryne tunglo,
hu hy ælce dæge      utan ymbhwerfeð

5

eallne middangeard?      Hwa is moncynnes
þæt ne wundrie      ymb þas wlitegan tungl,
hu hy sume habbað      swiðe micle
scyrtran ymbehwerft,      sume scriðað leng
utan ymb eall ðis?      An þara tungla

10

woruldmen hatað      wænes þisla;
þa habbað scyrtran      scriðe and færelt,
ymbhwerft læssan,      ðonne oðru tungl,
forðæm hi þære eaxe      utan ymbhweorfeð,
þone norðende      nean ymbcerreð.

15

On ðære ilcan      eaxe hwerfeð
eall ruma rodor,      recene scriðeð,
suðheald swifeð,      swift, untiorig.
Hwa is on weorulde      þæt ne wafige,
buton þa ane      þe hit ær wisson,

20

þætte mænig tungul      maran ymbhwyrft
hafað on heofonum,      sume hwile eft
læsse geliðað,      þa þe lacað ymb
eaxe ende      oððe micle
mare geferað      þa hire middre ymbe

25

þearle þrægeð?      þara is gehaten
Saturnus sum,      se hæfð ymb þritig
wintergerimes      weoruld ymbcirred.
Boetes eac      beorhte scineð,
oðer steorra,      cymeð efne swa same

30

on þone ilcan stede      eft ymb þritig
geargerimes,      ðær he gio ða wæs.
Hwa is weoruldmonna      þæt ne wafige,
hu sume steorran      oð ða sæ farað
under merestreamas,      þæs ðe monnum ðincð?

35

Swa eac sume wenað      þæt sio sunne do,
ac se wena nis      wuhte þe soðra.
Ne bið hio on æfen      ne on ærmorgen
merestreame þe near      ðe on midne dæg,
and þeah monnum þyncð      þæt hio on mere gange

40

under sæswife,      þonne hio on setl glideð.
Hwa is on weorulde      þæt ne wundrige
fulles monan,      þonne he færinga
wyrð under wolcnum      wlites bereafad,
beþeaht mid þiostrum?      Hwa þegna ne mæge

45

eac wafian      ælces stiorran,
hwy hi ne scinen      scirum wederum
beforan ðære sunnan,      swa hi symle doð
middelnihtum      wið þone monan foran,
hadrum heofone?      Hwæt, nu hæleða fela

50

swelces and swelces      swiðe wundrað,
and ne wundriað      þætte wuhta gehwilc,
men and netenu,      micelne habbað
and unnetne      andan betweoh him,
swiðe singalne.      Is þæt sellic þincg,

55

þæt hi ne wundriað      hu hit on wolcnum oft
þearle þunrað,      þragmælum eft
anforlæteð,      and eac swa same
yð wið lande      ealneg winneð,
wind wið wæge.      Hwa wundrað þæs

60

oððe oþres eft,      hwi þæt is mæge
weorðan of wætere;      wlitetorht scineð
sunna swegle hat;      sona gecerreð
ismere ænlic      on his agen gecynd,
weorðeð to wætre.      Ne þincð þæt wundor micel

65

monna ænegum      þæt he mægge gesion
dogora gehwilce,      ac ðæt dysie folc
þæs hit seldnor gesihð      swiðor wundrað,
þeah hit wisra gehwæm      wundor ðince
on his modsefan      micle læsse.

70

Unstaðolfæste      ealneg wenað
þæt þæt ealdgesceaft      æfre ne wære
þæt hi seldon gesioð,      ac swiðor giet
weoruldmen wenað      þæt hit weas come,
niwan gesælde,      gif hiora nængum hwylc

75

ær ne oðeowde;      is þæt earmlic þinc.
Ac gif hiora ænig      æfre weorðeð
to ðon firwetgeorn      þæt he fela onginð
leornian lista,      and him lifes weard
of mode abrit      þæt micle dysig

80

ðæt hit oferwrigen mid      wunode lange,
þonne ic wæt geare      þæt hi ne wundriað
mæniges þinges      þe monnum nu
wæfðo and wunder      welhwær þynceð.



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