Sēo Abbodesse sit æfter hire wāgrifte, healdende hire gewritrolle, ac tōdæg se wāgrift is stānwāg and sēo rolle is unrǣden, innweard gewend and stille. On þǣre rihtan worulde hire tempel is gang betwux dēagolnessum, sēo ēa æfter hire blīciende lāþung. Gehworfen, sēo ēa is gefroren under genipodum heofonum. Þæs temples stānas sind stille, se lyft hefig mid āscungum þe næfre hira andswara ne findaþ. Hēo weorþeþ hyrde stilnesse, þǣr cūþnes nis gedǣled ac geinsiglod æfter stāntigle.
Stāntigel self wæs ǣr corfen of clifum and beorgum, gedolfen mid handum sēcendum scyldes and þurhwununge. Hrōfwyrhtan þās tiglu lecgaþ, oferlappende ælcne tō scyldenne hām fram unablinnendum regne. On Wēaliscan tūnum þā hrōfas þone mist fōþ, hira brerdas slīþe þonne hnesce þurhwuniende droppa þone morgen bewǣfeþ. Ealde scōla, rōdstedas, and tūnhūs beraþ þās ilcan scyldas, wihte hira ylde and brūces þicce on lyfte, swā ælc tigel dēagolnessa gehealdene fram winde gemune. Swilce stōwa hira heortan ne ætȳwaþ ēaþelīce, and þā rūmas under þām tiglum sind dimme and stille, edlǣc fōtstapa gesogen swā mid miste.
Stānbred stent on hyrne bōcstede, his andwlita āwiped ac næfre ful clǣne. Calcmearca, healfe gemunode, wuniaþ on þām cylum. Þæt bred is lāþung tō wrītenne, ac se calcsticca is tobrocen and se lār ungefremed. Leorneras ǣr lōcodon on þæt bred tō andswarum. Nū hīe geseoþ ān gāst þæs þe mihte bēon āwriten. Se mōd wendeþ innweard, ymbhweorfende āscunga, unmihtig tō þurhbrecenne. Þis is sēo cūþnes þe is āteah, nā forloren, ac bediglod lȳtlum būtan rǣce.
On stillum æfternihte regn fealleþ on slāwum unāwendum mynete, þām cynne þe on bān ealdra stāntūna sīgeþ. Se heofon ufan is blāc genipod hēap, nā beorht nē ful besceadowod. Orþung mistaþ ongean þæt ēagþyrl þā hwīle þe hwer wearmþ on þām heorþe. Ūte beorgas tōrriaþ, hira hrycgas gehnescede mid miste and feornesse. Scēap stillīce gærsaþ be stānigum sīdum, hira fell þicce ongean þone fūhtan. Sēo woruld gefēleþ āhæfd, gehealdan on stilnesse, swā stefna and spell under þām hrōfum and æfter þām wāgum sind gewitene, ābīdigende clǣnran heofonas.
On þissum wedre Sēo Abbodesse is þæt belocene geat, þæt wæter þe his dēagolnessa healdeþ. Hēo is sēo bōc þe unrǣden wunaþ, sēo duru þe ne āgiefþ. Cūþnes abideþ, swā sēo sunne æfter þām wolcnum, ungewis hwænne hēo þurhbriceþ. Ac ēac on stilnesse sind līþe dǣda þe þone dæg frōfor bringan magon. Man mæg calcsticcan hwettan and stillīce āscung wrītan, þēah nān andswaru cume. Ōþer mæg brerd stāntigles smēþian tō gearwienne hine tō nīwum geþōhtum, ādilegode þæt þe wunaþ. Þridda mæg standan æt þām ēagþyrle and þā wǣtan hrōfas sceawian, orþiende þā stilnesse, and lǣtende geþyld bēon hire āgen wīsdōm. Oþþe, mid carfulum handum, man mæg þone āmissan tigel on hrōfe betan, gemyndig þæt ælc dǣl sīe ēgþer scyld and gemynd.
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