Se pæþ þurh niht nis nā leng scearp under þǣm mōnan. Þǣr wilde and tame ǣr gemētton æt weges ecge, sind heora hiw āblended, heora naman forswolgene mid miste þe gaderaþ niþer be eorþan. Se heofon wealcaþ mid hefigum wedre, wolcnu drȳccende niþer, and dēþ þā woruld swīgran. Þæs cotlifes hrōf, slīpor æfter rēne, wierþ dīegol swā tigelstān. Wæter gaderaþ æt ecge, ofyrnþ and sīhþ þurh wæterþēote þe nā dæges lēoht gesāwon manige dagas. Under oferslegum hangaþ eald hyrdes hacele forgiten, his clāþ þicce of brūce, berende stenc wullsmeres and sumes dēopran, eorþan, langes wōrunges, and gemynd sceapa clipiendra ofer īdelum feldum.
Ūt on feorran ārīsaþ þā beorgas, heora stānena sīdan gesmēþode þurh hundgēar windes. Þā stānas hēr habbaþ ealde mearcgewinn and midniht sīþas gesewe, cēapwegas farende under heora sceade. Mȳneras clufon hwīlum on heora sīdan æfter dēorum stānum, berende lēohtfatu þāra glæs flīcgerode mid ungewissum līegum. On nihte meltan þās slīdas on þone orrīman, unālȳfed tō tōdǣlenne fram þǣm niþran heofone. Wegfarende mearciaþ heora fær mid swēge scōna on wǣtum flāgstānum and mid clipunge feorres fugoles, nǣfre gewisse hwæþer hē sīe wilde oþþe hāmweard.
Nēar æt handa, on cycene, sitt hefig fæt on wudubēode. His glæs is swā eald swā þæt hūs, gebræd on ofne gescēapen mid ēalame and gesēawod mid ǣlcum mete þe þurh þās duru fōr. Þicce cnytt wildra fīola hangaþ stille on crocces, heora stelan gewundne, heora stenc tō blāc tō fyllenne þone būr. Þā fīolan gemunan forlorene tīda, stormas þe ūp āswōpon þone denu, and morgenas þonne hund and wulf bēgen treddon þone ilcan pæþ tō strēame. On wyrtūne hangaþ sēo lyft stillu, nā behāt ne warnung, ānlīce dēop bīdung.
On sumum ǣfenum cumaþ þæs fisceres nett hām hefige mid maccarellum, heora scillan blāclīce glitiende on lēohtfætes glēame. Scipu glīdaþ eft þurh þone ēamūþ, seglum gefealdum, wudu ādeorcod mid sealte. Þæt wæter hēr belūcþ hrædlīce, and forswelgþ lāst rōþres and ceoles, swā þæt æt dægrēde wunaþ ānlīce gemynd fære. On gesthūse æt hæfenes ecge biþ ealde spell gereht on hyrnsetle, þǣm þe mā sceade healdeþ þonne lēohtfæt, þǣr dīeglu biþ gewrixled wiþ swīgan.
Þonne sēo niht þicce gefēlþ and se weg forþ ungewiss, mæg helpan tō ātēonne þone ealdan hyrdes hacelan, tō standenne be openum ēagþyrle, and tō lǣtenne þone wǣtan wind forþ strīcan. Wearm þīne handa ymbe þæt fæt, mearcigende his rīm mid þūman, and gemyne þā metas þe ealle hām gegaderodon. Bind telgran wildra fīola æt þīnum weorcsetle, oþþe heald ānne gedrȳcnedne betwēonan blædum þisse wucan ǣrendes. Gif þū færst þone hæfen, ābīd æt þǣm hyrnsetle, hlyst þā spell þe in and ūt drīfaþ of lēohtfætes lēohte, and ber hīe stille mid þē.
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