Ān līchama stent stille, and gȳt wæter of ānum calice on ōþerne, se strēam unbrocen, sēo styrenes stæþig. Under hira fōtum scēawaþ smal pōl heofon þe nā gȳt his mōd gecoren hæfþ. On feorrnesse lǣt smal pæþ tō þām hrycge þǣr lēoht behāt ende. Gemengung is þæt weorc, nā se ende self, ac se pæþ þe ungelīc þing findaþ sibbe tōgædere.
Þisses pæþes spell is āwriten ofer wīde dǣlas eorþan, þǣr se wind gǣþ þurh feld on slāwum wealcendum ȳþum. Hēr rīsaþ stelan of fūrum, hēafda hefige mid sǣde þe biþ ēgþer ge hlāf ge þēaw. Sēo wyrt is æt āne heorte þæs landes and his stǣr, gesāwen and gerīpod be handum þe geleornodon geþyldigne ryne tīda. Rēn fealleþ, hwīlum tō micel, hwīlum tō lȳtel, and ā biþ hē gemeten, gewegen, carfullīce gegoten of ānum gēare on þæt nīehste.
On ealdum spelle gehȳrdon þās feld godum þe wacodon ofer hweorfunge sǣde and hærfestes. Þæt corn þe man on stānweofodum geoffrode mearcode geþwǣre: þæt þe of eorþan biþ genumen, þæt biþ æfter wendunge āgiefen tō healdanne līf. On feorrum tūnum gaderiaþ cild þā gefeallenan hēafda æfter þām rīperum, and wefaþ hīe on smale geflætu tō āhōnne bufan þǣre duru for gelimpe and genihtsumesse. Ælc stela, gecorfen and gestabelod, is gemet tīde, and gewitnes þæs stillan weorces þe mengþ geornfulnesse and gelēafan.
On þām cicenbēode wierþ þæs myltes weorc tō meluwe, and melu tō dæghwāmlīcum hlāfe. Þā handa þe hine cnēdaþ gemunaþ þā handa beforan him, scieppende dāh on ǣrdæges stilnesse. Þǣr is calic wæteres, se rihta gripe sealtnes, hrīning huniges, and sēo anbīdung þæt se dægesrest rīse. Se hlāf þe of ofne cymþ healdeþ ēgþer ge gemynd þæs feldes ge behāt þæs metes, brycg betwēonan hungre and fylle, betwēonan weorce eorþan and weorce handa. Clāþ of þǣre ilcan wyrte gewefen oferwrīhþ þone bēod, strang and ānfeald, healdende mearca manigra þweala and manigra mēla.
Cēapwindas bǣron hwīlum scipu hefige mid saccan of feorrum scīrum, þæt corn innan āseted tō burgbæcerum and tō cēapsetlum. Cēapas wǣron geslegene on rīmshūsum, and spēda rīson and fēollon on ānum hærfeste. Þāra scipa hefignes, and se stæþiga þweorh hira fare, is ōþer cyn gemengunge, ēa cēapes flōwende tō mētenne ēa weorces. Þǣr sind gewritu ealdra drȳgnessa and cystigra tīda, horderna gefylledra and ātēmdra, and ælc līne is gemynd þæt emnet nǣfre biþ fæst, ac ā biþ geheald.
Ēac þæt weder nimþ his tācn of þissum feldum. On lætran sumere is sēo lyft stillu and hāt, and bereþ blācne stenc eorþan. Æt æfenne is þæt lēoht lang, and se heofonrima gelīþegod mid dūste þe ūp flēogeþ þǣr þā þerscendan fōron. On swelcum wedere þyncþ sēo woruld bīdan, and healdan hire orþung betwēonan gaderunge and giefe.
Hit is mihtelic tōdæg tō stæppenne on þās styrunge: bac hlāf, and cnēd þone dāh mid geþylde. Āhōh smæl geflæte bufan þīnre duru, gewefen of ælcum strēawe oþþe stelan þe æt handa is. Sete scēaf on þīnum bēode, tō gemunenne þæt slāwe gemyndige weorc þæs feldes. Oþþe nim stillne gang be pæþe þurh open land, and gefrēd hū tīd gǣþ betwēonan þīnum handum swā wæter betwēonan twām calicum.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwǣte.
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