On candellēohtre stilnesse ealdra templa Se Pāpa is hīw sārlīcre forþsendunge. Þegnunga ontȳnaþ mid carfulum handum: stōr ārīsende, eald word gecweden, endebyrdnes gebǣra gongen be gemynde mā þonne be andgiete. Þonne hē riht sit, hē healdeþ þone þrǣd þe tōdæg tō giestran gebint, wefende þā gesewenan worulde tō þǣre ungesewenan. Ac nū, sittende underbæc on þǣre carte, þæt hīw findeþ his handa æmtige, þone stōr ān smīc, þā þegnunga holne edlǣc ǣrran mihte.
Þǣre heafodcirican stānas sceawodon cneorissa sēcendra and prēosta, hira andwlitan gehnescede mid gēarhundum regnes and tīde. Under fōtum se flor is gebrycgod mid platum gehēawenum hēage on þām mōrum, gedolfenum of clifum þǣr sǣfuglas on miste hwearfiaþ. Ūte, on þām blēatan landsceape, hierdas þā fōtpæþas betwux clūdum gesmēþodon, and ēowda þurh regndroppan lǣddon þe gemǣre eorþan and heofones āblendeþ. Cēap þāra þe þā heardan eorþe tōclēofaþ and scyppaþ is ēgþer eald and nēod, ac ofer gēar þā word þe ǣr ælc nīwe plat bletsodon sind fordwinene, and lǣfaþ ān swēg hamera and gemet geswinces.
On þǣre cycene stāntigelbred abideþ æt ende þæs bēodes. Hit þegnode ǣr swā brerd hlāfes and cēses, oþþe swā hrædgewrit þǣr metsēþunga and gemyndword mid calce wǣron āwriten, ǣrend gewriten for hīrēd þe nū ne hlysteþ. Nū hit sit ungebrocen, his endebyrdnes wuniende swā healfe gemunod lēoþ. Þæs hūses þegnunga, forþgāng þæs hlāfes, bletsung þæs metes, waniaþ tō gewunan, þā hwīle þe swæcc gemǣnnesse stillīce āslīdeþ.
Feor, on gewederodum tūnum æfter yldendum cotum, hrōftiglu oferlappaþ on carfulre edlǣce. Hīe þone storm ūte healdaþ, ac beraþ ēac cyn ālǣtunge, cūþnes þæt scyld mæg tōdāl weorþan. Mos wexeþ on hira sēamum, and se wind lāse tiglu hristeþ æfter nihtum unablinnendes regnes. Binnan ceald heorþ abideþ ontendnesse willan, gemunende þā gēar þā se fȳr wæs ancor gaderunge hīredes and reccunge spella.
Is beorghrycg, feor norþ, þǣr se mist in cymþ lēase and wunaþ oþ middæg. Wegferendan þe þone pæþ ofergāþ habbaþ gefræge þæs landes geleornod be crace stānes under fōtum, be ciele þe under swuram and handwyrstum slīdeþ. Þā ealdan wegas cwǣdon þæt man þone mist mid worde grētte tō gesundum færeld, ac nū se þēaw is mǣst forgiten, and fōtstapa sind ofsted, ēagan gebiged, swā andgiet þæs færeldes sīe geworden ān fær tō weorce.
Þonne eald þēaw gefēleþ swā utan geleornod and sēo þegnung þā heortan nā leng ne āstyreþ, man mæg þone cyrnel gīet findan mid hweorfunge tō þām ānfealdan. Tōdæg sum man mæg gehāt oþþe lēoþ on þām cycenbredde wrītan, oþþe fingerspord on brerde ealdes hrōftigles lǣdan, gemunende hū hit mid handa wæs gelegd. Hīe magon on morgen ūt stæppan, orþiende þone wǣtan lyft æfter nihte regnes, oþþe on middes færeldes ābīdan and hlystan tō edlǣce hira āgenra fōta on stāne, oncnāwende þone pæþ swā ful hira āgenne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Stāngræg.
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