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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.