On þǣre carte þǣre Metgunge stent gegiered līchama betwēonan flōwendum wætere and fæstre eorþan. Ān calic gȳt on ōþerne, gemeten styrenes þe flīehþ efestunge and unspēd. Se pōl under him scēawaþ ēgþer ge þone heofon ge þā stæþigan handa bufan, and biþ plegstōw geþyldigre fare wæteres betwēonan fatum. Begeondan þām pōle windþ wōrig pæþ ūp on līþne hrycg, and bodaþ styrunge and stillne gang, and se feorrnes betwēonan anginne and ende biþ gelīþegod þurh þæs landes stilnesse.
Fela gēara ǣr wurþodon sǣmenn ānne stān þe man fand be þām sǣriman þǣr ēa gemengaþ wiþ sǣ. Man sægde þæt þās stānas bǣron gemynd gesundra hyþa, smēþra flōda, stæþigra windas, and þǣre seldan þurhsīenen clǣnnesse sǣwæteres æt ǣrdæge gesewenre. Sǣmenn seowodon swelcne stān on þone inneweard hira syrc, and getrīewedon him þæt hē heolde hātre heortan cōle and þone weg sōþne. Þonne geflitu bræcon under þām scipe, mihte se sciphlāford ānne on handa drȳfan, gemynd þæt ēac þā unstillostan wæteru magon setlan gif man him tīd giefþ.
Furþor inland geleornodon cræftigan and cēapmenn þās ilcan stilnesse on hira cræfte tō ēacienne. Glæsmeltan, orþiende līf on molten sand, spēddon bolla and fatu tō healdanne þæt stilla glīem flōdpoles. Þās fatu nǣron ān fægere, ac ēac nytt. On cicenbēode mihte ān healdan þā ǣrestan pīsan lenctenes, hira coddas scearpe of þām wyrtūne, oþþe handful mintes tō æfenes tē. Ælc tīd þe man wæter on swelcne bollan gēat, bær sēo dǣd stilla cīgunge, carfulle, gīemenfulle, and þancfulle for þām þe on gīemene wæs giefen.
On wyrtum ætīewþ onlīc andweardnes. On mildum sǣriman and hēahum stǣnenum hrycgum sind wyrtu þāra lēaf gaderiaþ and healdaþ rēn, and healdaþ cōlnesse wiþ middæges hætan. Wyrtweardas leorniaþ þās libbendan ārigean, and wǣtaþ hīe gemetlīce, and lǣtaþ þā lēaf lǣran gemet. Nā tō micel, nǣfre tō lȳtel, ac genōg. Hwīlum, æfter sumeres scūre, hleapeþ lȳtel fugol and supeþ of lēafes hol, and þonne scīet āweg, and lǣt þā wyrte unāstyred, and emnet is eft gesett.
Weder ēac begǣþ cræft gemengunge. On sumum morgenum, sōna æfter līþum rene, biþ sēo woruld bewunden on hnescre and clǣnre miste. Hēo āblǣndaþ þā scearpan ecgas, and tīehþ ūt þā smalan līnan pæþes and wyrtūnes. Þis is sēo hwīl tō gānne ūt and tō orþienne þā lyft swā hēo sīe nīwlīce þurh līn āseohte. Se dæg onginnþ būtan efestunge, ælc fōtstæpe gemyndig, ælc orþung dǣl þæs stillan weorces þe geþwǣrlǣcþ þæt forþgewitene and þæt tōweard, swā wæter gǣþ of calice tō calice and nāht ne lǣfþ bæftan.
Tōdæg meaht þū beran sǣsmēþne stān on þīnum codde, and lǣtan his hefignesse þīne geþōhtas stæþigan. Gēot fersc wæter on glæsbollan, and bīd tō sceawienne hū sunnlēoht plegaþ on his brāde, hwīl smeagunge ǣr þæs dæges weorcum. Gīem drȳglufiende wyrte, and wǣt hīe ān swā micel swā hēo sōþlīce þearf, and getrīewe hire slāwum stillum wæstme. Oþþe, æfter þām rene, gā būtan ānum ende, and lǣt þā mist þīnne ryne lǣdan, and þīnne pæþ scieppan þurh geþyld.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Middel meregrēne.
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