Ān wer hangþ hēafod niþer, gefangen on bīege bærres, windstrēpedes trēowes. Hē is stil, ac his mægenu bifiaþ, and wiþsacaþ þā gelaþunge tō forlǣtenne. On þissere ymbcerredan worulde ne rǣcaþ þā wyrttruman dēopre. Þā lēaf ne flēogaþ leng on forlǣtennesse. Se rāp is rūh, corfen of stīþum seglclāþe, þām cynne þe man brēac on ealdum campseammum oþþe on gyrdlum þe cnyttaþ hefige saccas elewæstma on rīpe. Hē nis orsorg tō anbīdenne þǣre rīpunge. Fēt bīegaþ, tā clyppaþ. Sēo sunne is hēah, and tīehþ trēowtearo of þām wuda, and dēþ þone lyft smæccan dūstes and geþryccedra wyrta.
Ǣr, on hlīþe þǣr þā grāfas gāþ on endebyrdum rǣwum, þryccedon weras and wīf heora handa wiþ þā stoccas, and feldon þā stīþan, gewridenan rind. Hīe gaderedon lȳtelne, ægsceapenne wæstm on windlas, ǣlcne besmitenne mid wundum windes and tīde. On þǣre ealdan worulde bǣron cempan roccas corfene of þiccum, wederfæstum clāþe gedeagodum mid sēawum āwylledum of þām lēafum and þām þryccedan wæstme, geseowene tō þurhwunienne gnidunge, tō blācienne and tō libbanne þurh regn and sunnan. Se orcerd is ǣgþer æcer and gegierela, stōw tō wyrcenne, þing tō werienne, gemǣre on lande tīda. Tō wiþsācenne þā anbīdunge is tō forlǣtenne þone gewederodan wīsdōm þāra trēowa, mid heora slāwum ymbhweorfum, heora gearwnesse tō standenne stil þurh drūgoþe.
Se Hangenda, on þǣre ymbcerredan sīdan, is ymbhringed mid stīþnesse þǣre eorþan. On cycenbēode sit gebēatod tīnfæt nēah þām ēagþyrle, hlid gefæstnod, healdende þone endemestan dǣl scearpre grūtte geworhtre of sealtwæstme, sealte, and wyrtum. Sum man brēac ǣr cempan seaxes tō snīdenne heardne hlāf, tō smierwenne þā grūtte ǣr dæges faru, tō trymmenne līchaman wiþ þā langran, unstyriendan tīda þe tōsprǣdaþ ofer þā feldas. Se lyft on þām rūme is þicce, gemynd swātes and þryccedra lēafa, regnwǣtra rocca drȳgendra be þām ofne, heora stenc strang and þurhwunigende. Wiþsæcung þǣre reste mǣnþ þæt se hlāf biþ etten drȳge, þæt seax ādulod, se æcer ungerīpod.
On þām hēahlande hræt se wind þurh þone lēafhrōf, and berþ lāf nēalǣcendes regnes. Þæt weder is unstil, nā storm, ac þurhwunigende dropung þe besmīt þā stānsteapas and wǣteþ þā wefenan windlas forlǣtene ūtan þæs hūses. Hēr anbīdeþ sēo woruld, ac fēt þæs Hangendan bifiaþ mid ungeþylde. Stǣr ligeþ on grēfum þæs orcerdes, gemynd fōrwega windendra þurh hlīþ, þāra blācra bēacna āhangenra on tūnstōwum, þāra behāta þe man wrixlede under biterre sceade þāra trēowa. Wiþsæcung tō underfōnne þā anbīdunge tred þā nīwan spryttan, nīedeþ þone wæstm ǣr se flǣsc sīe gearu, and sēo woruld andswaraþ mid smæcce ǣgþer scearpum and ungefylledum.
Tōdæg meaht þū wīpian þone ealdan seglclāþ on þīnum ærendseame, and gemunan his fær þurh fæn and sunnan. Þū meaht þryccan þūman on grēfan trēowcucleres, and lǣtan þæt grān þē gemyngian þǣre nīede tō slāwianne. Nim tīd tō gānne þone nearwan pæþ betweox stānweallum, and gīem þǣr se wæstm fielþ and þǣr hē anbīdeþ, unofsted, on þǣre cōlan sceade. Oþþe sit mid healfopenum fata, and ǣþma þone scearpan smæcc ǣr þū hine smierwast on hlāf, and læt þone smæcc þē lǣran be geþylde and gearwnesse.
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