Æt þām þersceolde twēgen swēras standaþ, unāstyrede, ymbfrætwende þone stillan gang þe þā ēagan on scead tēoþ. Betwux him hangþ wǣfels, þicce and gesīwod, healdende underbæc þæs tūnes dēagolnessa. On hire sceate Sēo Abbodesse beclyppeþ belocene gewritrolle, hire stafas bediglode fram unwyrþum ēagum. Wæter gaderaþ æt hire fōtum, swā stille þæt hit āgiefþ ān þā lǣsestan hīw heofones and stānes, scīnende nā tōweard nē ǣr, ac þā stilnesse þǣre tīde. Hēo is ēgþer hyrde and gewita, behealdende cūþnesse þe gīet nis gemēned tō wordum.
Sind niht be openum sǣ þonne heofonas lēase þringaþ, pællbrādnes endelēas strecende, tōbrocen ān mid glēde feorra lēohttorra oþþe mid stillum seglum slīdendum tō uncūþum sīþum. Fisceras, late hweorfende of hira bediglodum wīcum, cūþon hrīne þisse tīde: lyft þicce, mid stilnesse æfter winde, and sēo woruld restende on stilnesse ǣr se ȳþ eft styre. On swilcum wedre, swā stǣr segþ, sǣmenn hira cnottan on stilnesse rīmdon, sīþigende be gemynde and ingehyde mā þonne be steorran oþþe cumpas.
On dēopum tīdum munucas on ealdum bōchernum hira gewritu under blice hwæleleblācerna unwealwaþ. Hira hrægl, hefig and ānfeald, sūcaþ dēagolnessa þǣre nihte, gongende unswege on stāngangum gebrerdodum mid belocenum cistum and gewritum. Se slawa stilnes wendendra leafa edlǣcþ þurh þā healla, þegnung geþyldes and ārfæstnesse. Ofer tīd þā leaf sūcaþ stenc regnstorma and blæces, gemynd dēagolnessa gehealdenera and næfre gesprecenera.
Wrīteras and bōceras ā frōfre on swilcre stilnesse sōhton. Virginia Woolf, ārīsende ǣr dægrēd, þrȳde hire feþere on bōcfell þā hwīle þe sēo ceaster slēp, hire bēod locigende tō þām ēagþyrle þǣr se heofon lēase ongean þæt glæs þrāng, hefig mid eallum þām þe hē bediglode. On þǣre ilcan tīde wæccwyrhta ofer his benc āhieldeþ, sēo woruld ūte tō sceade tōslopen, se ān swēg tic þæs cræftes on his handum. Þǣr, on þǣre stilnesse, sēo woruld hire sōþ slāwlīce āgiefþ.
On brerde norþerna wuda wādrīperas carfullīce stæppaþ, hira windlas gefrætwode mid clāþe gespunnenum tō dēagolnesse. Þā leaf, gegaderod æt wanunge þæs mōnan, sceolon bēon gehealdan fram lēohte oþ hira tīd. Nēah blōstma nihtblōwendes jasmines ontȳneþ, ungesewen mæstum ēagum, his stenc drīfende, tācn þæt sume þing hīe selfe ætȳwaþ ān þonne sēo woruld stillost and gīemfulost is.
Wāgrift getogen on bōcstede mæg spell geþrycced on his fealdum healdan, gēartīda hwispredra getrēownessa and blācernrǣdinge, ā healdende underbæc þone hlynn and lǣtende stilnesse sittan. Ēac se hefiga glæsbolla on þæs lǣces bence, geinsiglod and gemearcod mid carfulre handa, abideþ þā tīd þe hē biþ nēod, his innung gehealdan on dēagolnesse. On ealdum ceastrum torras waciaþ ofer stillum hæfenum, hira hēapas and speru bewundene on ǣrmorgenes miste. Sēo belle nis gehrungen. Sēo tīd is gehealdan.
Tōdæg man mæg ārīsan ǣr dægrēd and hlystan tō stilnesse þǣre worulde, oþþe þicne gesīwodne wāgrift ofer ēagþyrl tēon and stillīce sittan, lǣtende þā stilnesse dēope sittan. Hīe magon wel gehrinende bōc niþer niman, rǣdende ān ān leaf, and hīe mid care belūcan, oþþe ǣrend geinsiglian, and hit gehealdelīce āweg dȳfan tō tōweardre tīde. Ælc dǣd is gebǣre tō geþylde and tō strengþe tō healdene dēagolnesse, tō weorþienne þone þersceold betwux witanne and nāwitanne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Midnihthæwen.
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