Ān hīw stæpþ forþ, ac þær is yldung. On þǣre carte stent fērend æt þǣre ecge, smæl byrþen ofer eaxle geslegen, ēagan fæste on þām heofonrīme, fēt ǣr ūp āhafene ǣr se grund bēon mæg gesewen. Se lȳtla hund æt his sīdan beorcaþ warnunge þe nēah ungehȳred gǣþ. Sēo woruld is open, ac se weg nis gȳt ætīewed. Se fōtung is ungewiss. Se hlēap, unmæten.
On þām ealdum spellum set sum ā ūt ǣr dagunge. On ceastrum mid miste ymbsettum, on sǣtūnum þær sǣmist ofer hālstānum wælceþ, sind þā strǣta æmtige and blāce swā sēo woruld self hire āgen hīw forgieten hæfþ. Ēagþȳrelglæs bereþ þynne helm morgenwǣtan. Hegas and wyrtūngeatu glitniaþ mid lāfe þe rēne ne gebyraþ. Ēac fōtlāstas sind ādwǣscede. Se fērend, wite hē hit oþþe nā, færeþ þurh cyn wēges, ānne þe ǣgþer lāþaþ and dīeglaþ.
Hēr, on þǣre stilnesse ǣr ǣnig þing sīe gecoren, þyncþ sēo woruld yldan. Cyricgærs and ealde crȳptas cuciaþ on þǣre stilnesse, stānas cōle and smēþe, naman nēah ādwæscede. Ealde līnene scēatas, ofer niht on līnan āhangene, fōþ þone sunnūpgang þā hwīle þe hīe on þǣre yste wendaþ, styriende swā līcrægel oþþe fana æt healfum mæste. On þǣre cycene biþ porecelāndisc mid līþre care ūt gesett, his brerd glitniende swā behāt on dīegolnesse gehealden. Þær sind swammas, ǣr morgenmēle gegaderode, heora hēafda hnesce, nēah þurhsīene, ætīewende and fordwinende æt wudecge swā hræde swā þæt lēoht wendeþ.
Se weder folgaþ þām mōde. Þær sind morgens þonne forst ne bīteþ ac inn siteþ, lēoht swā sīcettung, and bewrīhþ þone wyrtūn mid filme þe ne mæg bēon āswāpen. Hit is weder þe ealle ecga smylt. On beorgpaþum habbaþ fērende bēon gecūþe weg tō forleosenne nā for þȳstre, ac for þȳ þe hwearfung smales clīþiges mistes þone weg bewint, and mearca ādīlegaþ. Þær sind spell be þissum. Hierdas gefangene on miste þe þā woruld ādwǣscþ, þær swēg þyncþ geborgod and ǣlc stæpe is rǣd. On swilcum wedre þyncþ ēac clipu feorres fugles swā gemynd.
Handworhte wēgas and wēofodclāþas, gewefene mid carum fingrum, sind ūt ālegde and gefealdene on stilnesse hāligstōwa. Heora þrǣdas sind gespunnen of ealdum spellum, sume tō heofunge, sume tō blisse, ealle tō tīdum þe þerscoldas oferfaran þurfon. On þām lǣcehūse hyrst se ǣresta helm sealtes brerd myrþes, forlǣten æfter þām þe wyrt sind gegrundene and wǣtan āseohene. Sēo lāf is smalu, nēah ungesewen, ac hēo mearcaþ þæt weorc þe on þām ǣrum tīdum wæs gedōn. Ofer landum, on wēsten tūnum and on norþernum feldum gelīce, biþ rīspapīr āþrycced and gedrȳged, swā lyftig þæt hit þyncþ his wǣg borgian of þām þe þær nis.
Ā is frēcennes þonne se hlēap biþ gedōn ǣr se weg sīe gefunden. Se fērend, æt geate þæs lictūnes oþþe æt þām mistbewrigenan hyþe, stent æt anginne hwætes nā gȳt gesceapenes. Þēah rǣcaþ þā handa tō þām niehstan þinge: þæt līn tō glenganne and mid willan tō fealdenne, nīwne disc tō settanne and his scīman tō gīmenne, tō gānne on þone wyrtūn ǣr se forst sīe ūp āhafen and tō gīmenne þæs þe ofer niht ætīewde, tō stæppenne ūt þā hwīle þe se mist wunaþ, hlystende þǣre ǣrestan belle oþþe feorran hlyde hornes.
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