Hwǣte hrūstlaþ on stilnesse, and ymbset setl þǣre Cwēne, þe mid wyrtūne is ymbhringed full welena þe ǣr rīpe and grāpbære sind. Rōsan blōwaþ æt hire fōtum, and heora blēda sind hnesce wiþ þæt web libbendra þinga. Wæstm þringþ þā bōgas neah hire, peru and papayan hefige mid swētnesse, and līþe wæterhryre glīdeþ ofer smēþum stāne, and þrǣdeþ stille drēam þurh þone lyft. Hēo ne rǣcþ tō þām þe wana bēon mæg. Hēo rest on þām andgite þæt genyht hēr is, gewefen on ǣlcne tīman and on ǣlcne dǣl offrunge þǣre eorþan.
Sceawa færeld þǣre papayan. Ǣr wild weaxende be ēaōferum feorra ēalanda, fand hēo weg on cȳpscipu, geþacod be wyrtum and be swēotole. Cȳpmenn bǣron hīe betwēonan hyþum, and hire swæcc wæs dīegol oþ hēo ǣrest on nīwum lande wæs tōsniþen. On wearmum cycenum leornodon cneorissa þisne wæstm tō wendenne, and āhlōdon þæt flǣsc tō swingenne mid dripe rēames, oþþe fealdon hit on tartum and on cōlum swētmētum. Þēos bolla, gesett on sunnlēohtum bēode, hielt stille wlite, þone cyn þe on ānfealdnesse and care biþ gefunden. Hit nis ān mete, ac gemynd sumeres æfterna and þæs ēaþan hleahtres þāra þe gehende wǣron gegaderod.
Wyrtūn þǣre Cwēne nis ān stōw, ac landrīce frōfre. Wegas mid hwǣtestrēawe gefōdrade līþiaþ fōtlāstas, and lǣdaþ tō hyrnum þær sceadu and lēoht plegiaþ wiþ gewitredum stāne. Hwīlum, æfter þām rīpe, licgaþ clāþas on þām gærse tō middæges mēle, and windlas sind fulle þæs þe gegaderod is. Se lyft is līþe, gehrinen mid þǣre mildnesse þe siteþ æfter ofste plantunge and ǣr stilnesse æfennes. Ēac se weder hine selfne tō ēaþnesse sciepþ. Hnesce ystas drīfaþ þurh openum ēagþȳrelum, and lāþiaþ inn swæcc hlāfes þe on trēowenre brede cōlaþ, oþþe behāt rēnes hwār ūp on þǣm dæle.
Innan þām hūse nimþ genyht nytlice hīw. Lēof bolla mæg bēon ūt gesett tō gemengenne, his brerd smēþe of gēarum brūcunge. Līnen, mid handum āþwogen and on sunnan ādrīged, biþ gefealden on rihtum hēapum, gearu tō þām niehstan mēle. Cȳpmenn bǣron hwīlum þās web ofer landum, and heora fāgnessa wǣron of ānre þēode geborgene and ōþerre gegiefene, oþ se clāþ self wearþ tācn cumlīþnesse. Woruld þǣre Cwēne is sēo þe ǣlc gewuna, wæstm tō snīþenne, mēl tō settanne, ānne tīman leng tō sittanne and þæt wendende lēoht tō scēawienne, tācnaþ þanc þæs þe ǣr is geoffrod.
Tōdæg meaht þū wæstm mid hunige swingan and hine cōlne þegnian, and sumne mann lāþian tō dǣlenne swētnesse middæges. Sprǣd līnenne clāþ, ēac on gewunelīcum bēode, tō mearcienne þone tīman swā syndrigne. Gā weg, sōþne oþþe geþōhtne, þurh þīnne āgenne wyrtūn, oþþe yld ān and hlyst þām wætere þe on pīpum oþþe on rennūþum yrnþ, and gemyne þā ealdan ēa þe þās gifa ǣrest bǣron. Ǣlc dǣd, swā smalu swā hēo sīe, is lāþung tō genyhte, weg tō oncnāwenne þā fullnesse þe ǣr hēr is.
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