Þæs Drȳs bēod is gesett: gebrocen hamor, tobrocen cuppe, scēalig bledu rēnwæteres, and dǣl hlāfes āheardod æt ecgum. Þǣr hē riht bebēodeþ þā tācn, gierd, calic, sweord, mynet, drīfaþ tōdæg þā handa and yldaþ, and spinnaþ þā ealdan þing tō uncuþum, ungewissum þearfum. Se rēn būtan ēagþȳrele fealþ fæste, ungehræded and cōl, and drīfþ þone æftern on stilnesse þe setlaþ swā līcen on stāne. Se lot, þyncþ, nis on galdre, ac on findenne hwæt þās tōl weorþan magon þonne heora andgiet on sīd slīdaþ.
On hēare dene forlǣtenes stāndelfes hlīniaþ ealde stānas tōgēanes under þām singalan drysme. Mēos and slatesceard tōstencaþ þone weg. Ǣr gecorfene and borene mid gewissnesse, licgaþ þās platu nū āfeallene, heora ǣrra brūc swā hrōf oþþe heorþ geworden ungewiss. Sēo lyft, swōt mid feorrum pīne and wǣtre eorþan, berþ stilnesse stōwa læftra him selfum. Gēarhundum ǣr ceorfon menn and tugon þās stānas, and træcodon mearce helmes and cēapes, heora handa rūhe, heora ēagan scearpe. Nū fylgaþ foxas þāra manna stæpum, windende þurh gebroc, findende nīwe wegas on lāfum ealdra willena.
Þunor grimmþ feorr, and mynegaþ þone wōrigend þæt weder is his āgen drȳ, wrixlende endebyrdnesse þinga. On swilcum dagum, þonne se hrōf lēcþ and se heorþ is cōl, weaxeþ se heorþsīde māre þonne se sprǣchūs. Slaten scingel, ǣr bufan hēafde, biþ gegaderod tō brūce swā geworht trivet wiþ cetle, sēo hǣtu tēonde of him gemynd sunwearmra daga. Sēo cuppe, tobrocen and hefig, ǣr dǣl morgens þēawes, biþ genīeded tō þegnunga swā scoop sǣda oþþe papirhefignes on þǣm windrȳre. On wyrtūne hæfþ se rēn gehnesced þone weg, and dēþ þā molde ābūgan. Sēo bledu, gemearcod tō þweale, fēhþ þone oferryne and þēnaþ tō wæterienne wyrtruman þæs þurstigan fearnes æt dura.
On hyrnum hūses biþ gewederod slate eft gebroht tō weorce swā ærendebord, mid cealce gemearcod mid mynegungum and mid wiscan: hlāf, ǣgru, bōtung tō dōnne, cuma gebīden æfter ǣfen. Se bysen þæs Drȳs, swā gewis on willan, is nū lotwrenc, and þā cūþan tōl bēon ymbhwyrfede, ǣlc eft gebroht tō weorce, ǣlc brūc sum gelimp. Se rēn hwisprþ wiþ ēagþȳrelum, and blinnþ ecge betwēonan innan and ūtan, betwēonan gēare and andweardnesse, betwēonan þām þe þing sceolde bēon and þām þe hit tōdæg dōn mæg.
Mann mæg healdan dǣl slates and brūcan hine swā cōlne disc cēses oþþe wæstmes, oþþe drīfan hine on wyrtūn swā stæpstān. On wǣtum æfterne wierþ sēo cuppe fæt sǣda gemearcodra tō bēonne tōstenced þonne þā wolcnu brecaþ. Þæs hamores hefignes, cūþ on folman, mæg cnyssan lēas þā ealdan næglas of gehæledum bordum, timbriende nīwe of þām āworpenan. And hwīlum is genōg tō træcenne finger ofer wǣtum stāne oþþe tō hlystenne þām fæstan drope of oferslagum, stilnes tō gefēlenne þone lot æt weorce, þā hweorfunge þæs þe wæs intō þām þe nū biþ þearf.
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