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The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry


The Meters of Boethius: Meter 31
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Hwæt, ðu meaht ongitan,      gif his ðe geman lyst,
þætte mislice      manega wuhta
geond eorðan farað      ungelice;
habbað blioh and fær,      bu ungelice,

5

and mægwlitas      manegra cynna
cuð and uncuð.      Creopað and snicað,
eall lichoma      eorðan getenge,
nabbað hi æt fiðrum fultum,      ne magon hi mid fotum gangan,
eorðan brucan,      swa him eaden wæs.

10

Sume fotum twam      foldan peððað,
sume fierfete,      sume fleogende
windað under wolcnum.      Bið ðeah wuhta gehwylc
onhnigen to hrusan,      hnipað of dune,
on weoruld wliteð,      wilnað to eorðan,

15

sume nedþearfe,      sume neodfræce.
Man ana gæð      metodes gesceafta
mid his andwlitan      up on gerihte.
Mid ðy is getacnod      þæt his treowa sceal
and his modgeþonc      ma up þonne niðer

20

habban to heofonum,      þy læs he his hige wende
niðer swa ðær nyten.      Nis þæt gedafenlic,
þæt se modsefa      monna æniges
niðerheald wese      and þæt neb upweard!




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