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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 23

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 11 sections

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   Sie ðæt la on eorðan ælces ðinges

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   gesælig mon, gif he gesion mæge

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   þone hlutrestan heofontorhtan stream,

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   æðelne æwelm ælces goodes,

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   and of him selfum ðone sweartan mist,

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   modes þiostro, mæg aweorpan.

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   We sculon ðeah gita mid godes fylste

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   ealdum and leasum ðinne ingeðonc

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   betan bispellum, þæt ðu ðe bet mæge

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    aredian to rodorum rihte stige

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    on ðone ecan eard ussa saula.

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