Se engel þǣre Metgunge stent mid ānum fōte on eorþan, ānum on yrnendum strēame. On rihtre gesihþe gēotaþ hire handa wæter of ānum fæt on ōþer, stille and gemetlīce. Ac tōdæg hieldeþ þæt fæt, and wæter bogaþ ūt and ofer, spildende begeondan þone rand, sūcende on þone grund. Sēo carfulle wrixl is forloren. Sēo ēa ne mæg bēon on cristalle geheald. On þām bēode gehende, þǣr hēo sceolde hire calic settan, is ān camellia, wæstmlic and nēah gedyrstig, hire blæda ūtweard bīgende, opene tō þām stuntan winde.
On spelle hæfþ sēo camellia bēon tācn langunge oþþe behātes. Gebroht of ealdum wyrtūnum on Ēastasie, wæs hēo ofer sǣ gecēapod and geseted on Victorian hātum hūsum, þǣr hire blōstman þā glæshūs mid rēadunge gefyldon þurh þā blēacostan mōnaþas. Hire blæda nellaþ belūcan siþþan hīe openiaþ, and ne magon bēon eft on cnæppe gedrēfde. Þæs blōstman heorte is ā ætēowed, gemynd þæt þing āgoten ne magon bēon unāgoten, and þæt sum swētnes ne mæg stille bēon behȳded.
On þǣre burge cēapstōwe is bæcere þæs ēagþȳrel is gefrætwod mid cācum, gecrȳned mid swētum rōsenblædum and geglæsedum eorþberigum. Under þām glæshrōfe stent ān gefroren ēclǣr, his hyrst glisiende and gedyrstig. Man bycþ hine tō blissum, tō gebyrdtīdum, tō bōtum, tō geþwǣrungum, and hē ætīewþ þæt unflēonde wæfersȳn willan, þā wīsan þe wē hungriaþ æfter strengþe þonne emnet slīdeþ. Se bæcere scēacþ sculdru, and cȳþ þæt hē þisne cræft ān wirceþ on dagum þonne se heofon wild genōg þyncþ tō rīnenne on sīdan. Þonne windas āhebbaþ, clifaþ swēt on fingrum, and hleahtor āslīdeþ ūt on þā strǣt.
Furþor be wege is seolcsweotol gecnytt tō rāpe wegfarendes coddes, flēogende on lyfte. Sēo sweotol, geboht on sūce on Marrakech, tēah hwīlum gīeme tēcēapes, his setl þrungen mid glæscroccum and gemēttum tīnum. Hē sægde þæt wīf swelce sweotole bǣron on freolestīde, þonne drēamas menn on niht cīgdon and blæda þā hleapendān bestreowodon. Se clāþ, unstyre, ne mihte lange bēon flæt gedrēfed, and his fæc sægde spell costa, tō ūt stæppenne, tō stede cēosenne.
Geara ǣr fōr sum weder ofer Montanan felda. Þunorwolcnu hrȳmdon, and on ungewunelīcum storme hruron haglstānas, hrōf gnīdende and hwǣte flætende. Þonne se heofon clǣne wearþ, urnon cild ūt, and fundon þā feld tōstenced mid þām geslegenum stelan and, uncūþlīce, mid blædum pēonien of gehendum giftum þe se wind hōf, āclæmdum tō durustafum and wægnēagþȳrelum. Þȳ nīehstan dæge gaderodon þā tūnesmenn tō clǣnsienne, ac sume lēton þā blæda drīgan þǣr hīe fēollon, and gesāwon on þǣre unendebyrdnesse ungewunelīce fægernesse, spell þæs þe biþ þonne se gewuna hryreþ and sum beorht þing his stōwe nimþ.
Under tācne þǣre Metgunge ymbhwyrfedre helpeþ tō settanne camellien blōstman on þīnum bēode, and lǣtan his andweardnesse þē gemyndgian þæt unfulfremednes is hire āgen cyn hyhte. Þū meaht etan cræft gecorenne for his gedyrstignesse nā for his emnete, and swētnesse mid tungan spyrigan, and ne sorgian ymbe þæt wōh. Bind sweotole, unstyre and beald, ymbe þīnne handbēag oþþe codd, and lǣt hīe styrian swā þū gǣst, tācn openre willan tō þām ungewēnedan. And gif storm þīnne tūn hrēre, gā ūt þonne hit gesund biþ, find þā lāfa, þā blæda and þone scīn, and lǣt þē wundrian.
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