The Meters of Boethius: Meter 31

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous 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!