Fīf stæpas lǣdaþ ūp in þæt tempel, þǣr se tīma sætlaþ ofer corfenum swērum and stillum bencum. On middan Se Pāpa hine forþ āhieldeþ, and cǣga glitiniaþ æt his gyrdele, and twēgen menn cnēowiaþ be þām wēofode, hēafdu gebiged. Eald hrægl fangeþ þæt lēoht þæs blācernes, and se lyft hæfþ þā stilnesse stōwe þe is gesceapen þurh mænigra cneorissa þegnung. Þæt hrægl is hefig, and hit berþ tācnu þe of lārēowe tō leornere sind gongen, and ælc stice is gewrit ealdra lāra. Ufan, ān bred of gehamrodum golde scīnþ hund gēara gebeda, and andwlitan wōriaþ tō gescēade and tō lēohte.
Þæs temples spell is geedlǣht feor būtan his wāgum: on þām dūste ealdre Lydia, þǣr ēabeddu goldclūdas āgēafon þe wǣron ofer eall ōþru dēore, and cyningas hira gehāt on mynetum þrēadon. Þæt ilce gehāt glitnaþ on smalum goldwyrhtum brydhringes, þe resteþ on pællciste, and abideþ þā tīd þe hit āþ besēalaþ. Þǣr ēac, on bōceres stede, is bōc mid gebigedum hyrnum beclysed mid wundorlicre clamme, of handa tō handa gongen, līchamlīc cǣg tō gehæfdre wīsdōme. On feorrum felda bifiaþ rǣwa rīpes hwǣtes under ēagum lātre sumersunnan, gearwe tō þām sicol þe fōdan hām bringeþ. Ælc þissa þinga, mynet and hring and clamm and scēaf, is hyrde ealdes þēawes, and gripbǣre tācn geērfe.
On þǣre cycene æt ǣfenne is lȳtel panne geseted on þām heorþe, gefylled mid hunige and buteran, and gehrered oþþæt sēo gemengednes þiccaþ tō smēþum and scīnendum þinge. Þis is mid sponne geseted on ātehlafum, ānfeald swētnes þe gemanþ rīpas and hūsrǣdenna þēawas þe ānne cynn tō ōþrum gebindaþ. Elles hwǣr cræftiga glēteþ calices brerd, carful þæt hē þā corfenan mearca ne ādīlige þe ǣrra þegnunga secgaþ, and his handa sind fæste þā hwīle þe hē þā cūþan bīegas træceþ. Ūte latu sunne tōslīteþ þā wolcnu æfter middæges storme, and hēo oferflēt þā worulde mid lēohte þe feldas and cirictorras scīnan dēþ, and ēac forwerede strǣtstānas tō dēorum þinge wendeþ.
On stillum bēode sit eald cǣg be geinsiglodum gewrite. Þæt gewrit hæfþ ǣrend, spell mǣgþe, oþþe metsēþunge on hringigum stafum, oþþe wegscēawunge tō stōwe þe fēawa gemunaþ. Sēo cǣg mæg cyste on hroflofte ontȳnan, oþþe scrīn on hræglhūse, oþþe nāht, būtan ingeþance. Se gefēl ealdes þēawes is cwic on þissum þingum, nā swā forfroren þing, ac swā weg tō gānne þurh þā worulde mid care and andgiete. Þā folgeras on þām temple waciaþ georne, and leorniaþ ælc gebǣre be heortan, and witaþ þæt tōnihtes þegnung nis ān edlǣc þæs ǣrran, ac ēac gang for nīwum þinge.
Tōdæg þū meaht lēof gylden þing glētian, and þīn hrepung his beorhtnesse āgiefan. Þū meaht eald ǣrend oþþe metsēþunge eft rǣdan, and lǣtan gemynd and willan þīne hand lǣdan. Nim tīd, and gearwa ēadmōdne snæd mid hunige oþþe mid ōþrum rīpe, and brūc þǣre gebindnesse tō þām þe þā feldas ǣr þē begēmon. Gif þū cǣge hæfst þe langa unbrōcenne scrīn oþþe cyste ontȳneþ, brūc hire, and þenc hwylce þēawas, ealde oþþe nīwe, þū rȳm for þām gefremest.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Gold.
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