The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
The Meters of Boethius: Meter 29
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
Gif ðu nu wilnige weorulddrihtnes
heane anwald hlutre mode
ongitan giorne, gem almægene
heofones tunglu, hu hi him healdað betwuh
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sibbe singale, dydon swa lange.
Swa hi gewenede wuldres aldor
æt frumsceafte þæt sio fyrene ne
mot
sunne gesecan snawcealdes weg,
monan gemæro. Hwæt, ða
mæran tungl
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auðer oðres rene a ne gehrineð
ær þæm þæt oðer of
gewiteð.
Ne huru se stiorra gestigan wile
westdæl wolcna, þone wise men
Ursa nemnað; ealle stiorran
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sigað æfter sunnan samod mid rodere
under eorðan grund, he ana stent.
Nis þæt nan wundor; he is wundrum fæst,
upende neah eaxe ðæs roderes.
ðonne is an steorra ofer oðre beorht,
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cymeð eastan up ær þonne sunne;
þone monna bearn morgenstiorra
hatað under heofonum, forðæm he hæleþum
dæg
bodað æfter burgum, brengeð æfter
swegeltorht sunne samad eallum dæg.
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Is se forrynel fæger and sciene,
cymeð eastan up ær for sunnan
and eft æfter sunnan on setl glideð,
west under weorulde. Werðioda his
noman onwendað þonne niht cymeð,
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hatað hine ealle æfenstiorra.
Se bið þære sunnan swiftra; siððan
hi on setl gewitað,
ofirneð þæt æþele tungol,
oðþæt he be eastan weorðeð
eldum oðewed ær þonne sunne.
Habbað æðele tungol emne gedæled
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dæg and nihte drihtnes meahtum,
sunna and mona, swiðe geþwære,
swa him æt frymþe fæder getiohhode.
Ne þearft þu no wenan þæt ða
wlitegan tungl
ðæs þeowdomes aðroten weorðe
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ær domes dæge; deð siððan ymbe
moncynnes fruma swa him gemet þinceð,
forðon hi be healfe heofones þisses
on ane ne læt ælmihtig god,
þy læs hi oðra fordyden æþela
gesceafta,
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ac se eca god ealla gemetgað
sida gesceafta, softa geþwerað.
Hwilum ðæt drige drifð þone wætan,
hwylum he gemengeð, metodes cræfte,
cile wið hæto; hwilum cerreð eft
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on uprodor ælbeorhta leg,
leoht on lyfte; ligeð him behindan
hefig hrusan dæl, þeah hit hwilan ær
eorðe sio cealde oninnan hire
heold and hydde haliges meahtum.
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Be þæs cyninges gebode cymeð geara
gehwæt,
eorðe bringeð æghwylc tudor,
and se hata sumor hæleða bearnum
geara gehwilce giereð and drigeð
geond sidne grund sæd and bleda,
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hærfest to honda herbuendum,
ripa receð. Ren æfter þæm
swylce hagal and snaw hrusan leccað
on wintres tid, weder unhiore.
Forðæm eorðe onfehð eallum sædum,
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gedeð þæt hi growað geara gehwilce;
on lenctentid leaf up spryttað.
Ac se milda metod monna bearnum
on eorðan fet eall þætte groweð,
wæstmas on weorolde, wel forðbrengeð
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hit þonne he wile, heofona waldend,
and eowað eft eorðbuendum,
nimð þonne he wile, nergende god.
And þæt hehste good on heahsetle
siteð self cyning, and þios side gesceaft
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þenað and ðiowað. He þonan
waldeð
þæm geweltleðrum weoruldgesceafta.
Nis þæt nan wundor; he is weroda god,
cyning and drihten cwucera gehwelces,
æwelm and fruma eallra gesceafta,
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wyrhta and sceppend weorulde þisse,
wisdom and æ woruldbuendra.
Ealla gesceafta on his ærendo
hionane he sendeð,
hæt eft cuman.
Gif he swa gestæððig ne staðolade
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ealla gesceafta, æghwylc hiora
wraðe tostencte weorðan sceolden,
æghwilc hiora ealle to nauhte
weorðan sceoldon wraðe toslopena,
þeah þa ane lufe ealla gesceafta
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heofones and eorðan hæbben gemæne,
þæt hi þiowien swilcum þiodfruman,
and fægniað þæt hiora fæder
wealdeð.
Nis þæt nan wundor, forðæm wuhta
nan
æfre ne meahte elles wunian,
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gif hi eallmægene hiora ordfruman
ne þiowoden, þeodne mærum.
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