Wīf cnēowlaþ æt ecge sweotoles meres, crocc on ǣgþere handa. Mid ānum gȳt hēo wæter on þā eorþan, mid ōþrum gefylleþ hēo þone mere. Bufan hire glōwaþ steorrlēoma, se mǣsta punct lǣdende þæt ēage, þā lǣssan lēoht geþēniende on swīgum endebyrdnesse. Sēo niht is swīge ac nā īdel. Sēo lyft berþ behāt, gefēl sumes līþelīce edcierendes. Sēo gesihþ is mā þonne anlīcnes. Hēo is færeld, behāt hyhtes āstīgendes of þǣm wylle þæs þe forloren þūhte.
Ofer tīd hæfþ swilc wæter gegaderod on scræfum, gefylled mūþas līmstāna wella, and ūpāsurged on færlīcum ādlum tō fēdenne þyrstig land. Gefyrn wrīton ūþwitan be mǣrum wylle þæs brādnes speglode þone heofon swā fullīce þæt man cwæþ þæt hē geþēodde heofon and eorþan. Farende cēapmenn sōhton swilce meras swā friþstōwa, heora gemynd feorra sǣwega geedlǣcende on hnescan slege wæteres wiþ stān. On ealdum hæfenum wǣron fatu geblāwenes glæses gewrixled wiþ sealt, ælc fōnde gāst sǣwindes and þone līþan þwēal ȳþa. Þās glæsfatu, dēore for sweotolnesse, wǣron gebrocen tō bringenne tācn Wendelsǣs hām, healdende dropan cōlre ǣfenlyfte oþþe gemynd sumeres stormes.
Weder hæfþ his āgene rītu. Hwīlum, æt dægrēde, is sēo lyft þicce mid hēagum miste, wuniende ofer feldum þǣr hreod grōwaþ. Þās hreod līnedon hwīlum rīman micelra ēa, þǣr þā forman mearcwyrhtan dȳpton heora þīnselas tō mearcienne feorre īeghēapas and wendende sǣrīman. Sǣmenn wacodon æfter tācnum smyltnesse oþþe stormes on fāce fāmes bufan ȳþum, witende þone tōdāl betwēonan dæge þe hyht lāþ and dæge þe warnung bringþ. On feorrum īegum berþ blǣd sealt openes sǣs tō wyrtūnum þǣr morgen dēaw biþ gegaderod on scealdum fatum, hwīlum gebrocen tō wæterenne wyrttruman seldra, stincendra wyrta.
On hūse þwōgon þā þe sweotolnesse sōhton heora handa on scealdum fatum, and lēton þæt wæter slīdan þurh fingras swā bletsung. On cycene stōdon glæsen croccas on bēode, gefyllede of wylle oþþe rēnfate, bodiende frēfrunge æfter sīþum langum oþþe scortum. Cild, eftcumende of ǣrendum, cuppodon heora handa tō drince, and sēo cōlnes hīe edcucode. On untrumnesse tīdum wæs clāþ gewǣted on wyllwætere gelegd ofer brūwe, ānfeald dǣd þe smylte and tācnode care. Ēac nū glit lȳtel fiscfæt on hyrne mid swīgum līfe, his brādnes fōnde þæs morgenes forme lēoht and tōstrēawiende hit on fācum ofer flōre.
Hyht nis feor. Hē biþ funden on edcierr, on geedstaþelunge þæs þe fēdeþ. Tō fylgenne þǣre carte færeld meaht þū settan fæt wæteres be þīnum ēagþyrle and behealdan hit speglian þone heofon æt sunnan ūpgange, oþþe fyllan glæsen fæt mid nīwum wætere tō þīnum weorcsetle þā þū wyrcst, and lǣtan hit þē gemyndgian sīþa and gehælda hæfena. Þwēah þīne handa slāwe ǣr nīwum weorce, ongietende þone cōlan slip betwēonan fingrum, oþþe ontȳn ēagþyrl æfter nihtstorme tō lǣtenne þā geednīwodan lyft faran þurh þīne būras. Ælc dǣd tēah of þǣm wylle ālȳfednesse, and stille edwecþ gefēl geþēodnesse betwēonan þǣm þe bufan is and þǣm þe eftcymþ tō eorþan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Wæterhæwen.
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