Prēost his gebǣru on æmtigre healle edlǣcþ, stōr trāgende on cealdum lyfte. Þā swēras æfter him sind corfene mid spellum, ac þā stefna þe hīe ǣr fyldon sind elles hwider gewitene, and lǣfaþ stān and stilnesse gesamnode. On þissum tīman se mynet wunaþ ac se intinga is āsliden, swā word forgiten sōna ǣr hit sīe gecweden. Þæt þe se prēost ǣr leornode is nū ān þegnung styrenesse, se ealda andgiet him fram tēonde, gewended mid sumre ungesewenre handa.
Būtan þām wāgum, on drīgum mǣdum on feorrum brerde sumeres, hēage stelan bifiaþ mid hēapodum helmun, wyrta cūþe for hira stīþnesse and for hira mihte tō ārīsenne þēah sēo molde þynne sīe. Nīet ǣr hēr gærson, and cild þā stelan bregdon, and hīe tō ānfealdum gyrdlum wæfon þā hwīle þe hīe tō Sunnandæges lāre oþþe tō landfægere fērdon. Sēo wilde wyrt, mid rihtum hnigendum sperum, is geweaxen on þām brerdum: be rōdwæterdīcum, on untemedum brerdum felda, þǣr sēo eorþe is forgiten and se sulh scort ætstenteþ. Hēo stent swā gefræge geedlǣht, gēar æfter gēare, þæt ilce hīw eftcumende, þēah þā handa þe hine ǣr nāmon sind gewitene.
Sind tīda þonne þunorwolcnu ofer þǣre wīdlande gaderiaþ, and læt æfterniht weorþeþ geladen and ābīdigende. Līget blīcaþ þurh þone mist, and wearm wind þā ēagþyrlu sceaceþ. Binnan lārēow þā blīndu tēoþ and hire stefn weorþeþ stille, leorneras unstille þā hwīle þe se storm ongean þā worulde þringeþ. Se lyft stincþ toclofenra stela and dūstes, and gemynd lates rīpes wunaþ on þǣre cycene þǣr eald wuduspon hunig on þicce briw hrēreþ. Sum man ǣr cwæþ þæt þēos wyrt mihte bēon gesoden tō tē, folclācnung tō clǣnsienne þā brēost, þēah se swæcc biter and strang sīe. Sēo dǣd is gongen, þēah se intinga wōrige. Ēac on þǣre ceastre menn hīe gaderiaþ on brerdum standstōwa, and edlǣcaþ gebǣre þāra þe ǣr cōmon.
On spellum ealdra tūna sēo wyrt wēox hēah nēah þæs mynsteres stæpum, hire wyrtruman þrǣdende þurh byrgenstānas, hire hēafdu būgende ac nāfre brecende. Hēo is gebrocen tō swāpenne þone heorþ, gewefen on besmas mid handum þe ān þone cræft gemunaþ, nā þone intingan. Sume secgaþ þæt swā lengra se stela sīe, swā strengre se hām, ac þā word habbaþ hira wihte forloren, drīfende on gewunan. Ofer sǣ cēapmenn ǣr þā drīgan stelan swā sciphefig pæcodon, and hīe on hricgum ēabāta and bargena hēapodon. Hīe sǣd of landum tō landum brōhton, swā þæt sēo ilce wyrt nū wexeþ be castelhrēosunge and on sceade cornhordhūsa. Þegnung gaderunge, berunge, and webbe gǣþ forþ, þā hwīle þe se fruma andgiet nīwe sceada fint tō būenne.
Tōdæg þū meaht tō brerde feldes gān and handful trumra stela gaderian, and hīe tō hringe bregdan and hine on þīnre fordura settan. Þū meaht þā drīgan hēafdu mid hunige and lēomum sēoþan, and þone tē on tobrocenre cuppan gēotan þā hwīle þe ǣfen fealleþ. Swāpa þīnne fordūru mid lȳtlum besme of þissum stelum, oþþe twig betwux leafum wel gehrinendre bōce þryccan, and lǣtan þā ealdan wegas on stillum gripbǣrum gebǣrum edlǣcan. Þæt gefræge þurhwunaþ. Andgiet abideþ tō findenne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc gylden.
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