The Meters of Boethius: Meter 30
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Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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Omerus wæs east mid Crecum
on ðæm leodscipe leoða cræftgast,
Firgilies freond and lareow,
þæm mæran sceope magistra betst.
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Hwæt, se Omerus oft and gelome
þære sunnan wlite swiðe herede,
æðelo cræftas oft and gelome
leoðum and spellum leodum reahte.
Ne mæg hio þeah gescinan, þeah hio sie scir and beorht,
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ahwærgen neah ealla gesceafta;
ne furðum þa gesceafta ðe hio gescinan mæg
endemes ne mæg ealla geondlihtan
innan and utan. Ac se ælmihtega
waldend and wyrhta weorulde gesceafta
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his agen weorc eall geondwliteð,
endemes þurhsyhð ealla gesceafta.
ðæt is sio soðe sunne mid rihte,
be ðæm we magon singan swylc butan lease.
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