Twā fatu hieldaþ, and þæt wæter misseþ his mearce. Þǣr nis nān smēþe flōw, ac ān oferflōw on þām bēode, scīn forloren on wōhum wege. On þissum brocenan wrixle hieldeþ sēo woruld ēac. Sēo smēþe līne betwēonan þām þe biþ gegoten and þām þe biþ underfangen āblǣndaþ, and sum þing lange on emnete geheald oferflēowþ.
On ealdum hyllum Anatolie tōbersteþ se apulder on stāne, and tōsprengeþ his sǣd on þæt dūst. Þes wæstm, ārlic swā behāt līfes and wæstmbǣrnesse, hwīlum openaþ ǣr man hine gaderaþ, and his genihtsumes biþ forloren þǣre eorþan under. Folcspell hwispriaþ þæt þonne Dēmēter sōhte þā woruld for Persephonē, hēo lǣfde swelce wæstmas healfetene, hira sǣd ungewunelīce glīemende, mearciende hire sārigne gang. Se ungehealdene tōbrec, se ǣra cyme, and se slīde of þām stelan, ealle ēacniaþ þæt unemnet þǣre Metgunge ymbhwyrfedre: genihtsumes on wōh gelǣded, swētnes unbridlod.
Feorr norþ, on beorgtūnum þǣr sēo lyft is þynne and se wind scearpaþ on ǣrran hærfeste, bereþ heorþrēc stenc glēda. Heorþīsen glōwaþ æt his orde, tō lange of fȳre getogen, and bærnþ þā ciele. Þās gierda, hira endas mid gēarum ādullode, healdaþ gemynd ealdra cicena, forbærndra fingra, āgotenes broþes, and þæs hrēames īsenes wiþ stān. Tōl geworht tō emnete, tō hrērenne, tō āhebbenne, tō wendende axan, gǣþ wōh þonne man hit wōh brūcþ. Se oferflōw spearcan on clǣnne heorþ þrēaþ wōhnesse, gemynd þæt ēac hāmlīc warmþ mæg on frēcennesse slīdan þonne sēo hand bifiaþ.
On þǣre ceapunge Fenetican hām cymþ cēapmann of þām Seolcwege, berende bala clāþes. Betwēonan him is anweald fellrēades clāþes, hefig and wēstmlic, geheald tō þēawe and tō mægne. Wōh gecorfen, tōslīteþ se clāþ, þrǣdas slīdende ofer þā tigela, and lēase fēt spurnaþ on him. Swelc clāþ mearcode hwīlum hād and þēaw, and his andweardnes bād gīemene, ac wōh geheald wierþ hē tō byrþenne, hwistunge þæs þe mihte frætwian and nū ligeþ forspilled. On palentium hordernum wǣron sceardas þisses clāþes hwīlum on wunda gedrēfde, and man gelīefde þæt hira þicnes meahte blōd stillan and līf healdan. Ac būtan gīemene mihte ēac þēos hǣlende willa forweorþan.
Ūte, on hīehþe sumeres, færþ færlic hātu ofer þæt land. Þā rēnwolcnu flēoþ, and feld craceliaþ under unāblinnendre sunnan. Eorþtilian gemunaþ tīda þonne se heofon nolde brecan, þonne hātu glīemde ofer sulhscaru and nīetenu þæfodon on sceadwe. Se dæg wierþ hefig, and se stenc gecnyssedra wildra bergena wunaþ on þǣre smorendre lyfte. Wæter, swā dēore, āþrīteþ ǣr hit mæg þā wyrttruman wǣtan. On wedres unemnete swicaþ behāt hærfestes, and hātra heortan tōslītaþ swā swā sēo eorþe.
Þonne þæt smale emnet hieldeþ and wæter gȳt būtan þām calice, mæg man sǣd apulderes hōn and hīe betwēonan tungan and tōþum drȳfan, and lǣtan þā sūrnesse þæt mōd on grunde settan. Hit is wīs tō polienne þæt heorþīsen, and fingras be his lengþe tō lǣtenne, tō gemunenne þā stillan gewisnesse stæþigre handa. Mann mæg cēosan tō bētenne sceard þæs rēadan clāþes, nǣdl mid geþylde þrǣdende, and eft settan þæt þe nēah forloren wæs. Oþþe gā ūt on middæg, hlyst stilnesse wyrta þe on hætan þyrstaþ, and gēot calic wæteres æt hira wyrttruman, and gief þæt emnet þe wunaþ.
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