The Meters of Boethius: Meter 23

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Sie ðæt la on eorðan ælces ðinges
gesælig mon, gif he gesion mæge
þone hlutrestan heofontorhtan stream,
æðelne æwelm ælces goodes,

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and of him selfum ðone sweartan mist,
modes þiostro, mæg aweorpan.
We sculon ðeah gita mid godes fylste
ealdum and leasum ðinne ingeðonc
betan bispellum, þæt ðu ðe bet mæge

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aredian to rodorum rihte stige
on ðone ecan eard ussa saula.