The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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þearle þrægeð? þara is
gehaten
Saturnus sum, se hæfð ymb þritig
wintergerimes weoruld ymbcirred.
Boetes eac beorhte scineð,
oðer steorra, cymeð efne swa same
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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