Of fæstum bōge libbendes trēowes hangþ Se Hangenda on smēagendre anbīdunge, and sēo woruld is ymbhwyrfed ymbe hine. His fēt sind gebundene, ac his ansīen is smylte, ymbhringed mid glēame andgietes þe cymþ āna þonne man styrenesse ālecgaþ. On swīge þǣre āhafenesse ne winþ hē. Hē forlæt hine tō þām līþan gripe þæs trēowes, and getrīewþ þæt stillnes sceal giefan nīwe gesihþe. Hēr nis hweorfung nā mægen ne ofest, ac cyre tō lōcienne on līf of ōþrum ecge, tō forlǣtenne and tō þencenne.
Þēos ymbhwyrfede gesihþ hæfþ hire edwist on stōwum betweox lande and heofone, þǣr gemǣru hweorfunge sind stille ac dēop. Þonne morgen openaþ ofer wīdre hȳþe, þonne þyncþ brerd þæs wæteres healdan his ǣþm. Fisceras, āne hwīle orsorge, lecgaþ heora nett and waciaþ þā hwīle þe se wind anbīdeþ. Scipu anbīdaþ æt ancran, heora ceolas gesewene on þām smyltan, þā hwīle þe mǣwas drīfaþ swīgende ofer hēafde. Þis is sēo tīd þonne sēo woruld biddeþ geþyld, behāt beorhtnesse æfter þām þe þā wolcnu tōgān and ǣr se bisiga flōd eft cymþ. Sǣlidan nāmon ǣr swilc weder tō tācne tō sceawienne landbēc, tō bētenne segl, oþþe ānlīce tō restanne, and wiston þæt þǣre sǣ līþoste mōd mæg lǣran fæstnesse.
On hēahum beorgum setlaþ lāstas þisse stilnesse on stillum merum. Wegfarende stondaþ æt wæteres ecge, and ālecgaþ heora sēamas tō wacienne þone brerd glisnian under hēahhrōfe heofones. Sēo gesihþ is cōl, rūm, and būtan ofeste. Scēaphierdas and lēoþwyrhtan, bēgen, habbaþ funden onwrigenesse on swilcum hwīlum, þonne gecynd anbīdeþ, and eall is gesewen mid uncūþre scearpnesse. Ēac on stǣres spellum onginnaþ mǣre fara mid anbīdunge, mid sittunge under swilcum heofone tō āscienne þā rihtan āscunge ǣr man ūt fare.
Nēar hām mæg man tēon þās smyltnesse on dæghwāmlīc līf. Sēo ilce geþyldige strengu wunaþ on þǣre cycene, þǣr lāmcrōcc gefylled of þǣre þīpan rest on ēagþyrelsylle, and dropung gaderaþ þā hwīle þe se morgen openaþ. On þǣre līnan ūte hangþ nīwan āþwogen syrcan and bolsterclāþas, līþelīce āhafene fram þām windþræsce þā hwīle þe hīe drȳgaþ, ȳþ æfter ȳþe. Ǣlc feald segþ spell anbīdunge þe wæs wæstmbǣre, nān ofest, āna þæt stille weorc lyftes and tīde. On þissum hāmlīcum hwīlum setlaþ lār þæs Hangendan. Hweorfung is oft stil, gefylled þurh þæt man lǣt þing bēon.
Tōl and cræftas þurh gēar habbaþ behōfod þisse anbīdunge. Se glæsblāwere ālecgaþ fæt tō cōlianne, and getrīewþ stilnesse tō lǣnne þām dǣle his strengþe. Ealde steorwīsan mearcodon heora fær nā āna be steorrum, ac be dagum þonne se heofon wæs sweotol and smylte, and lǣddon hīe bet þonne ǣnig gedrēfed gewinn mihte. Mēteras gāþ on bæc fram heora biliþbredum, and lǣtaþ gesihþe tōgædere cuman on rūme gefylledum mid sunnanlēohte and swīge anbīdunge. Wrīteras habbaþ ālegd heora feþera tō lōcienne ūt on wolcnleasne brǣd, and wiston þæt onwrigenes hwīlum rīdeþ on þām ānfealdestan wedere.
Wīsdōm stilnesse þæs Hangendan mæg bēon dǣl þīnes dæges. Heald cuppan cōles wæteres on þīnum handum and stond āne stille hwīle be openum ēagþyrle. Gā on ǣrdæge tō mere on felde, and læt þīne geþōhtas cuman and gān swā līþe swā se smylta on brerde þæs wæteres. Hang þīn þwogen hrægl tō drȳgenne ūte, and waca hū tīd and windþræsc dōþ heora weorc. Þonne þū nīehst dōme, þonne belūc þīne ēagan, ǣþma slāwe, and gīem hū anbīdung mæg hweorfan þæt andswaru.
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