The Metres of Boethius: Metre 4 University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/A.5.6.4 Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings English, Old (ca. 450-1100) Poems The Metres of Boethius: Metre 4
æala þu scippend scirra tungla hefones and eorþan þu on heahsetle ecum ricsast and þu ealne hræþe hefon ymbhwearfest and þurh þine halige miht tunglu genedest þæt hi þe to heraþ swylce seo sunne sweartra nihta þiostro adwæsceþ þurh þine meht blacum leohte beorhte steorran mona gemetgaþ þurh þinra meahta sped hwilum eac þa sunnan sines bereafaþ beorhtan leohtes þonne hit gebyrigan mæg þæt swa geneahsne nede weorþaþ swelce þone mæran morgensteorran þe we oþre naman æfensteorra nemnan heraþ þu genedest þone þæt he þære sunnan siþ bewitige geara gehwelce he gongan sceal beforan feran hwæt þu fæder wercest sumurlange dagas swiþe hate þæm winterdagum wundrum sceorta tida getiohhast þu þæm treowum selest suþan and westan þa ær se swearta storm norþan and eastan benumen hæfde leafa gehwelces þurh þone laþran wind eala hwæt on eorþan ealla gesceafta hyraþ þinre hæse doþ on heofonum swa some mode and mægne butan men anum se wiþ þinum willan wyrceþ oftost wel la þu eca and þu ælmihtiga ealra gesceafta sceppend and reccend ara þinum earmum eorþan tudre monna cynne þurh þinra mehta sped hwi þu ece god æfre wolde þæt sio wyrd on gewill wendan sceolde yflum monnum ealles swa swiþe hio ful oft dereþ unscyldegum sittaþ yfele men giond eorþricu on heahsetlum halige þriccaþ under heora fotum firum uncuþ hwi sio wyrd swa wo wendan sceolde swa sint gehydde her on worulde geond burga fela beorhte cræftas unrihtwise eallum tidum habbaþ on hospe þa þe him sindon rihtes wisran rices wyrþran biþ þæt lease lot lange hwile bewrigen mid wrencum nu on worulde her monnum ne deriaþ mane aþas gif þu nu waldend ne wilt wirde steoran ac on selfwille sigan lætest þonne ic wat þætte wile woruldmen tweogan geond foldan sceat buton fea ane eala min dryhten þu þe ealle ofersihst worulde gesceafta wlit nu on moncyn mildum eagum nu hi on monegum her worulde yþum wynnaþ and swincaþ earme eorþwaran ara him nu-þa