Þǣre cartan anlīcnes hæfþ wǣge on ānrre handa and sweord on þǣre ōþerre, ac tōdæg is þæt setl īdel. Þā wǣgan hangap, ān healf hefig mid stānum, sēo ōþer swā lēoht swā orþ. On dōmstōwe clypiaþ bencu gemynd sprǣca, ac þæs dēmendes stōl sitt cōl and unbrocen. Gefēlednes anbīdunge gǣþ geond: laguweg ongunnen ac ungefylled forlǣten, swā ǣgþer feþer and dōm āsleiden, and lǣfdon getimbru rihtes āna tō īdelienne on stilnesse.
Elles is ætfēolnes emnetes ætīewed on lande æfter rēne. Sēo ealde stāndelf, dēope on þone hyll gecorfen, fylþ mid stormwætere under heofone þe nēahe, unstille wolcnu swāpaþ. Sciferstānas līniaþ þone rīm, and niþer mearcaþ brocene sclateflōr ecge forlætnes weges. Sēo lyft is hefig mid stence wǣtre eorþan and stānes. On swylcum dagum þringþ wind þurh standende stānas, and hintaþ spell ungesettra saca, cēapa þe wǣron gedōn and þonne forgiten. Ǣlc ūtstand, gewundod and gelagod, gemyndgaþ tīd þonne handa stān ātugon tō hrōfe and tō heorþum, cræftas getimbrode on trēowe and on endeworde oferseondes þe nū is āweg.
On wǣtre cycene hēapaþ hwā disca þe sind gebrocen ac nā þwogene, heora ecga rūge, hefige mid giestranes mete. On ofne sitt īsenpanne, lāstas ele fōnde þæt smale lēoht of bewrogenum ēagþȳrele. Ufan heorþe hangþ tang of smiþþan be sīdan gerīmes þe leaf næfþ, cēaplīnan on midde stæle forlǣtene. On swylcum hūse is se gewuna āsliden. Se healdend is elles, and ǣlc andweorc is forlǣten þǣr his willa hwīlum wæs, nā forþ āstyred, nā eft gebroht.
Þæt ilce gefēled clifaþ tō nearwum strǣtum mȳnbyrig on æfenglōme. Sēo lyft wierþ scearp. Þā stānlānas sind slīde. Belocene ēagþȳrel healdaþ þā wǣtme inne, ac ūte settaþ ciele. Cræftmanna scyrtelas, trume and wērige, hangap on pilum innan durum, heora pūsan gewegene mid lāfum quittungum, dǣlum sclates, and þām lȳtlum tōlum cræftes þe dægrēd bītt. Scēatas blāwaþ, ac sume hūs ne sendaþ smēoc ūp. On hyrnum lāna līþ wænhweol on bæce, his īsenrīm fōnde þæt endemeste dæglēoht, gemynd þæt būtan handum þe hit rihtien, se brūc biþ tō forlǣtennesse forloren.
Geond swylce stōwa dēopaþ se heofon. Wederfront nēalǣcþ, hefig mid behāte rēnes. Se horizont dimmaþ þǣr þā hyllas þā wolcnu mētaþ, and þæt land gearwaþ tō nihte stilnesse. Nis nān þunor, ac þurhwuniende drȳf þæt wǣteþ þone mōs þe on cīnum sclatehrōfa wexþ, and stille of oferslegum drȳpþ. Sēo woruld heald hire orþ, bīdende hāmcyme, word, oþþe dǣd þe þā wǣgan eft tō endebyrdnesse hielde.
Tōdæg mæg mann geborgod tol eft on his rihtan stede bringan, oþþe hūsgerīm on endebyrdnesse settan mid gefyllednesse leafes þe ungefylled wæs forlǣten. Hīe magon tō ecge þǣre stāndelfe gān tō hlystenne þām winde, smeagende hwæt ungedōn is forlǣten, oþþe īsen pannan glisian oþþæt hit scīnþ, and willan eft giefan þām þe īdel wæs.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc stāngræg.
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