Wīf on stillum morgenne, gecrȳned mid wildum blōstmum, cnēowlaþ on langum gærese. Hire hand belūcþ līþe ymbe ceaflas lēon. Hit nis nā gewinn and nā sige, ac stilnes getrēowes. Hēo is swā still swā ortgeard lætre tīde æfter hærfeste, þǣr wæstm gȳt tō bogum clifaþ and se āna swēg is lēoht þe þurh lēaf gǣþ. Nīed hēr is andweardnes, nā ætīewednes. Þæs lēon hefiga orþ, wǣtme his manan, smēale gripe fingra: ealle sind belocene, ealle gehealdene on stillum gecwide.
Hwǣr begeondan þissum mǣdwe bǣron ealde scipu hwīlum cyste welgstences wæstmes geond þā Wendelsǣ. Heora stenc gemengde wiþ picce and sealte lyfte, and tēah cēapmenn tō feorrum strandum. Þās wæstmas wurdon gærsumas on heallum cyninga, tācnu friþes and geþoftscipes, bēacnu hǣle and geþyldiges beganges. Grāfas wēoxon on sunnan, heora bogas gebīgede under heft hærfestes, and þæt folc þe hīe heold, leornode strengu rytmes and tīde, anbīdunge, andgiet hwænne man gaderian sceolde and hwænne man þing lȳtle leng rīpan lǣtan sceolde. On cēapstōwum Seville and on wyrtūnum Maharashtra wurdon rind and innung mynet sprǣce, se smæcc on cicelum and on sealfum, and se biterswēta frōfor þām untrumum.
Munuc, gēarhundum ǣr, cnēowlaþ on stānwāgre cycene and snīt þisne wæstm on þynne hringas, and settaþ hīe on hrycgum beforan fȳre. Hē ne hræt. Geþyld is se hēafoddǣl. Þonne hīe ādrȳgde sind, faraþ þās hweol, on pūsan geþȳd tō langum færeldum oþþe on wintrumbriwum gewylde. Heora smæcc is sunnanlēoht gemyndgod. On ōþrum gēarhunde sēoþaþ seolcwebban þrǣdas on citelum mid þǣre rinde, scēawiende þā hwīle þe clāþ beorhtnesse feorra ortgearda onsupþ. Brȳd on feorrum lande biþ on þissum clāþe bewunden, hire weg tō weofode onlīht mid his stillum behāte and mid carfullum weorce manigra handa.
Wegfarende þe þone Sāhara ofergāþ, healdaþ ānne þissera wæstma on middæge, and þrȳcaþ hine tō weolorum āne hwīle frōfre on orþlēasre hǣte. Cild on tūnum Indonesianiscum ēhtiaþ him betwēonan þurh grāfas, hȳd clifiende of wōse, hleahtor rīsende þǣr se wæstm on windla fealleþ. On ealdum cycenum græt hand rindsmæcc on trēowene bolle, se scearpa stenc rīsende swā hyht on wǣtum æfenne. Marmaladcroccas līniaþ spichūsscealfe, ǣlc behāt geheald of nīewum hærfeste, ǣlc crocc geinseglod mid weaxe and mid gemynde slāwre hrērunge.
Ūte gaderiaþ wolcnu tō monsune. Sēo lyft stincþ wǣtre eorþan and blēda, and on þǣre stilnesse ǣr rēne bītt sēo woruld. Tō gānne on swylcum wedere, still and unforht, is cyn strengu, tō cēosenne þone hnescan stæpe ēac þā hwīle þe þunor þrēaþ, tō belūcenne þā duru mid carfulnesse, nā mid nīede. Hit is tō witanne hwænne man scyldan sceole, hwænne þone feld ofergān, hwænne mid stillum handum rǣcan.
Tōdæg meaht þū wæstm tō nēahgebūres bēode snīþan, oþþe rinda tō drȳgenne ufan ofne hōn. Cunn lȳtle gife on beorhtum, gemearcodum clāþe tō windenne, and læt þā fealdas heora āgen līþe tīgan healdan. Oþþe belūc þīne bōc mid slāwre, willendlīcre handa, and læt stilnesse settan ǣr þū sprece. Þis sind þā wegas þe strengu tō gewunan wierþ, gewyrttrumod on andweorce ǣlces dæges, ætīewed nā on hlyde ac on līþre þurhwununge.
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