Þæt tempel nimþ gefræge on þingum þe sind gongen: glēted cǣg, ceald tō hrīnanne, sit be gefealdum stole þæs brerdas rīpliaþ mid gange gēara. Twēgen menn cnēowiaþ stillīce, hēafdu gebiged, hlystende tō stefne þe ne cymþ of lyfte ac of endebyrdnesse ealdra setla, of stilnesse ealdes porcellanes on þām wēofode, and of wuniendre swētnesse lilian on wīdmūþum fæte. Betwux stānswērum sēo stille þegnung ontȳneþ swā hēo ā dyde, ælc styrenes edlǣcende lang gemynd handa and heortena ǣr.
On þām ealdum landscīrum þā miclan healla lāre wǣron gemearcode nā ān mid þǣre wīsdōme þe wæs gesprecen, ac mid þām þingum þe stillīce gewitnodon. Hēr, sīwed wēofodclāþ, gehealdan clǣne of wamme and carfullīce þwogen mid spones sāpan þe of giestes gife is asceafen, is gesmēþod ǣr sunnūpgange. His brerd is swā innewearde magnolian blōstman oþþe rinde hlāfpanne gecealdod on ēagþyrlstāne, hnesce, berende wearmþe langes slāwes ofnes, gīet nā gehrinen mid þæs dæges dūste. Ǣrlēoht in cymþ þurh hēagum ēagþyrlum, and onlēoht þone toclofenan glæser þǣre tēcuppan, hire brerd settende gemǣre þæs þe is gehealdan and þæs þe is forgifen.
On landsceape þegnunge se lyft is ā mild on þissum tīdum. Se rūm gefēleþ swā Apriles ǣreste āclǣnsung, þonne se frost is gewiten ac wearmþ gīet nis hefig geworden. Þæs prēostes oþþe lārēowes hand styreþ mid gemetre care, wendende leaf þiccre bōce þæs bōcfell, þēah mid gēartīdum dægrēdes gehrinen, gīet hwispriaþ þonne hit bīegþ. Þā folgeras cūþon þæra þinga weg: hū man scortne cicel on þel sette þe of þām metecōfan is gecealdod, hū man meolc of lȳtlum hlædle geōte þe is gesceapen swā blōstma, and hū man þone flor swāpe swā þæt dūst ne ārīse.
Ūte se heofon is æmtig mid gehāt, and smalu stenc ellenblōstman on þām lyfte rīdeþ, gemynd tūna begīmenra æfter hēagum wāgum, þǣr ælc blōstma on his āgenre tīde fealleþ. On þǣre cycene hlædel rēames abideþ æfternihtes tē, his brerd unbrocen and gehāt geniht. Sēo þegnung nis ān on þām wordum ac on carfulre lecgunge līnena mēlsceata, on þām wege þe hlāf is sliten nā corfen, and hū giestes þel is gewyrmed ǣr ǣnig þing sīe þegnod.
Tōnihtes endebyrdnes nis āfundennes, ac geērfe, rihte gefræge gesceapen mid unārīmedum ǣfenum ǣr. Sum man eftfylleþ þone sycorbollan þe is gesceapen swā eald tūnhūs, his hlid corfen mid lȳtlum lilian. Ōþer set fæt mid cornbēamtelgum, þā blōstman cealde and smēþe, nēah þurhsīene on þām blācernlēohte. Þā cǣga tō cofum and scrīnum, gongene of ealdfæder oþþe prēoste, gīet þā locu fōþ forþām gefræge þæs þēawes ne wearþ āwend. Hit is stille þing, þēos endebyrdnes, ontȳnende þā hwīle þe sēo niht sætlaþ.
Man mæg þone porcellan tēpott glētian ǣr hē hine for gieste ūt sette, oþþe gewrit wrītan mid ǣwylme feþere þæs hæcce ā tō þām ilcan stede on þæs bēodes scealdan scrīne hwyrfþ. Hīe magon hlāf bacan tō cealdenne on hengle be þām ēagþyrle, oþþe fealdas þæs ealdan bēodclāþes þryccan oþþæt his brerd sīe smēþe swā blōstma.
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