The Meters of Boethius: Meter 14

Verse Indeterminate Saxon

Hwæt bið ðæm welegan         woruldgitsere
on his mode ðe bet,         þeah he micel age
goldes and gimma         and gooda gehwæs,
æhta unrim,         and him mon erigen scyle

5

æghwelce dæg         æcera ðusend,
ðeah ðes middangeard         and þis manna cyn
sy under sunnan         suð, west and east
his anwalde         eall underðieded?
Ne mot he þara hyrsta         hionane lædan

10

of ðisse worulde         wuhte þon mare,
hordgestreona,         ðonne he hiðer brohte.