On worulde þǣre Cwēne sprēadaþ wyrtūnas on feorr, and behātaþ wærmþe and rīp gegaderod under care þǣre handa. Ac þonne sēo carte biþ onwend, slīdeþ sēo endebyrdnes innan þām hegum āweg. Īfig þiccaþ ungehealden, and clīfeþ ofer hegum þe hwīlum wlitige wǣron, and wint ymb hilt racena þe ofer niht ūte wǣron forlǣten. Swæcc cnyssendra lāwerlēafa wunaþ on þām lyfte, healf forgieten under hefignesse ealdra bōga. Hit nis þæt welig þæs midsumeres, ac stilnes bearwes þe him selfum is forlǣten, þær elewæstmas feallaþ and on gewitredum stāne sind gebrosnode.
Be hlīþum on forgietenum landscipum is se ealda wyrtūn hefig mid wæstme þe nǣfre ne wæs gegaderod. Þā bearwas habbaþ heora heordmenn forloren, and sēo þrȳc stent drȳge. On þǣre cycene sitt crocc sealtwæteres elewæstma gymeleas on bæce þæs cystes, his hlid belocen, ac dūst siteþ on glæse. Hlāf ligeþ ungefremed on þām bēode, be ādimmodum spōne and be gefealdenre wīpe þe mid mēle giestrandæges is besmiten. Se hīred is wērig geworden, and his hyrnas sind fulle windla forweorenra wyrta and lāfa rīpes þæs lætstan hærfestes, forlǣten tō drȳgenne on geflætenum mattum be þām heorþe.
Spell wuniaþ þær þæt land biþ forlǣten. Sēo æcerceorl sang hwīlum þā hwīle þe hēo ele of þām elewæstmum þrȳcte, hire handa slīce þā hwīle þe hēo þone ealdan stāncweorn worhte. Nū sind þā stānas selfe cealde, and se sang is ān gemynd on þǣm þicciendan æfenlēohte. Þæt hlīþ, hwīlum gefāgod mid rihtum rǣwum, is þurhþrǣded mid wildum þȳme and mid sceadum slǣpendra scēapa. Æt gemære þæs landes fōron hwīlum cempan forgietenes færeldes under elebōgum, heora scōs lāmige of rēne þe on þā wyrtruman wæs āgoten, and dyde þā eorþan hefige and slāwe. On þām tūne openiaþ cȳpinga gȳt, ac se cēap is stillu. Se cȳpa bewint cȳse on wīngeardlēafum, and þā ǣddran spyrjaþ landbec ēa þe of gēarum drȳges sind smale geworden.
Se weder þrycþ niþer, heofon hladen mid swæcce rēnes þe nǣfre ful cymþ. On swilcum dagum glitnaþ se stānweg mid ealdum ele þe of geborstenum amforan wæs āgoten, clīþig, stearc, and hē lāþaþ wæpsas and wundorlīc lōc catta under þām portice. Se lyft is þicce mid behāte þinges þe bēon mihte, and sēo cōlnes under þām eletrēowum weaxeþ hefig mid bīdunge.
On swilcre worulde nis edniwung beorht ne hræd. Hēo is geþyld, þæt līþe ālīesing þæs wīnbōges of þām hegestacan, þæt carefulla wendung þæs moldes ymb gymeleasne wyrttruman, þæt slāwe clǣnsung crocces tō wege tō mācenne sumum nīwum þinge. Mann mæg cycenclāþ niman and þæt dūst of þām elecrocc āwīpian, and hine on midde þæs bēodes settan þær lēoht hine findan mæg. Gāng þurh þone wyrtūn, and teoh þone īfig eft of hilt forgietenes spadan, and þū geedstaþelast sticce þǣre endebyrdnesse þe hwīlum wæs. On æfenne stēop fēawa lāwerlēafa on hātum wætere, and læt heora swæcc rīsan and ofer þone rūm sittan, and ealdra tīda eft clipian. Oþþe þrycc ān spricge wildes þȳmes betwēonan bōclēafum, and mearca þone dæg mid behāte cirrendre care.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc elegrēne.
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