The Meters of Boethius: Meter 30

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Omerus wæs east mid Crecum
on ðæm leodscipe leoða cræftgast,
Firgilies freond and lareow,
þæm mæran sceope magistra betst.

5

Hwæt, se Omerus oft and gelome
þære sunnan wlite swiðe herede,
æðelo cræftas oft and gelome
leoðum and spellum leodum reahte.
Ne mæg hio þeah gescinan, þeah hio sie scir and beorht,

10

ahwærgen neah ealla gesceafta;
ne furðum þa gesceafta ðe hio gescinan mæg
endemes ne mæg ealla geondlihtan
innan and utan. Ac se ælmihtega
waldend and wyrhta weorulde gesceafta

15

his agen weorc eall geondwliteð,
endemes þurhsyhð ealla gesceafta.
ðæt is sio soðe sunne mid rihte,
be ðæm we magon singan swylc butan lease.