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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 6

Old English · Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records · 17 sections

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   ða se wisdom eft wordhord onleac,

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   sang soðcwidas, and þus selfa cwæð:

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   ðonne sio sunne sweotolost scineð,

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   hadrost of hefone, hræðe bioð aðistrod

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   ealle ofir eorðan oðre steorran,

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   forðæm hiora birhtu ne bið auht

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   to gesettane wið þære sunnan leoht.

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   ðonne smolte blæwð suðan and westan

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   wind under wolcnum. þonne weaxeð hraðe

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    feldes blostman, fægen þæt hi moton.

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    Ac se stearca storm, þonne he strong cymð

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    norðan and eastan, he genimeð hraðe

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    þære rosan wlite, and eac þa ruman sæ

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    norðerne yst nede gebædeð,

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    þæt hio strange geondstyred on staðu beateð.

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    Eala, þæt on eorðan auht fæstlices

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    weorces on worulde ne wunað æfre!

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