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.