Æfter þǣre Abbodessan twēgen swēras ārīsaþ on stillum wiþmete, ymbfrætwende worulde ābīdene æt brerde onwrigenesse. Betwux him hangþ wǣfels, gesīwod mid wæstme and smalum tācnum, his fealdas bedīglende dēagolnessa þæs þe þǣrbūtan ligeþ. Hēo sit on stilnesse, hire fēt restende on brerde stilles wæteres. On hire sceate gewritrolle gemearcod mid stafum wunaþ belocen, sēo wīsdōm binnan ābīdigende þā tīd þonne man gearu sīe hīe tō onfōnne. Eall is smylte, ac geladen mid gehāt cūþnesse gīet ungesprecenre.
On þām spellum þe þurh ealde healla edlǣcaþ sind bediglode wellas, pōlas wæteres gedȳfde under calcclifum. Brerd swilces pōles ligeþ stille under þām ofhange, scīnende þone heofon swā hē wǣre dǣl þurhsīenes glæses. Se lyft þǣr is ā ceald, ēac on sumere, mid miste ārīsendum ǣr on dæge and wrīþendum be þām stānum. On þām dēaglum stōwum wæter healdeþ gemynd gēarhunda, ungedrefed mid fōtstapum, unhrinen mid sunnan būtan þām sceortum tīdum þonne lēoht þurh þā stānas ufan slīdeþ.
Lange ǣr wegferendan oferferende þā hēagan wēsten Asie ābīdon æt wæterstedum gebrerdodum mid wildre saluian and gærs. Þǣr, æt dægrēd, se heofon ofer þæt land ontȳnde, and ciele hangode on lyfte ǣr þæs dæges hǣte cōme. Cēapmenn and elþēodigan druncon of smalum porcellancuppan, ælc geglæred on tōne feorres heofones, blēo þe cōm of carfulum dēagolcræfte and of geþyldigum handum cræftigena. On þissum cuppan stīm wrāþ ofer iasmintē, gemengende stilnesse þæs ǣrdægrēdes. Þā cuppan selfe wǣron lȳtle, ac bǣron mearc feorra rīca, gemynd cūþnesse borenre on stilnesse be Seolcwege.
On þām hāme is seolcscēat fægre gefeald on cedercyste, his web smalu and ceald tō hrīnanne. Se scēat ǣr belomp sumum þe stillne morgen and þegnung rǣdinge on ānwōste wurþode. Hē wæs boren āhangen ofer sculdrum þonne se dæg gīet næs ongunnen, on tīde þonne dēaw on ēagþyrlum gaderode and sēo woruld stille gefēlde. Sind ēac stānas, gesette on hraglum ealdra scēawera and on hringum, stānas gesceapene mid ēam and gesmēþode mid tīde. Sume secgaþ þæt swilce stānas swefnu healdaþ, and þæt ānne beran sīe dēagolnes gesund healdan, nēah þǣre heortan.
Sēo Abbodesse healdeþ hīe selfe æt þām þersceolde, nā binnan nē būtan. Hire andweardnes is swā ǣrmorgenes lyft beorgmeres, þǣr mist drīfeþ be brerde ǣr hē æt sunnūpgange tōscipe. Hit is stilnes dæges ǣr ǣnig þing sīe gesprecen, ǣr sēo rolle sīe ontȳned, þonne ān þā innemestan ingehyda andwearde sind. Þis is lyft mynstercafertūnes æfter regne, þonne sēo woruld ūte is clǣne āþwogen, and se ān swēg is se līþa slæp wæteres ongean stān.
Tōdæg man mæg þone dæg onginnan mid standenne æt openum ēagþyrle, orþiende þone cealdan fūhtan lyft ǣr dægrēd. Gēotende tē on porcellancuppan, gīem þæt se dropa on his brerde gaderige, and heald þā wearmþe on þīnum handum. Feald scēat and sete hine þǣr þū sitst, tō gemunenne þē selfne geþyldes and wīsdōmes ābīdes ǣr sprǣce. Heald lȳtelne smēþne stān on þīnum pōsan oþþe on þīnum bēode, and hweorf tō him þonne þē sweotolnes oþþe stilnes nēod sīe.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blāc merehæwen.
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