Sēo Sunne, underbæc gecierred, is heofon būtan sceade, middægbeorhtnes þe smēaþ dǣl of þǣre worulde oþ eall āfeallaþ. Þā lēoman ne warmiaþ swā swīþe swā hīe āþyrstaþ and þryccaþ, tōbrǣdede ofer emnet þǣr se lyft mid hǣte cwacaþ. Se weg beforan þē hæfþ his līþan sceadwa forloren. Hē cineþ and hē hrēosaþ þǣr se fōt tō oft fōr, se cūþa weg mid unāblinnendre beorhtnesse fremde gedōn. Þǣr sēo uprihte carte þē sunnanblōstmas giefþ, rīpe wæstm, cildes ēaþelīcne rād, þǣr is nū sēo eorþe dūst, þā healmas forscruncene, and þæt cild stent mid ilum sār on weredum scōm. Se dæg is lang and drȳge, and ealde gewefene hættas weorpaþ būtan sceortne frōfor.
On þǣre stōwe þǣr ēa hwīlum urnon, þǣr sprædeþ nū wēstenflōr, sēo þe fērendas ofer gearhund fērdon on wegum þe wundriendra dūnaheapa hīew and wæterstōwa gemynd mearcedon. Sand gaderaþ on þerscolde, on ǣlces wealles grunde, on telda fealdum and on þǣm bīgum þǣr handa tōlum mētaþ. Cēapmen beraþ hiera gōd on saccos of rūhum fæste gewefnum clāþe, strangne genōg tō þolianne þone færeld, sōftiende ānum æfter mōnþum handlunge. On ealdum dǣlum tūna on ecge drȳgra landa bīoþ hūs of lāmtiglum getimbrod, ādrȳged under þǣre ilcan sunnan þe nū blendaþ, ǣlc ēagþȳrel smæl gecorfen tō healdenne þā hǣte. Cēapstōwa beraþ wedres tǣcnu, windlas of palmtwīgum, mattas on middæge behrorene, and þæt endelēase feormung grīotes ofer stān.
Scōs þe on þǣre dura belīfaþ beraþ þæs weges byrþenne, leþer of āþurstunge gecinod, dūst on sēamum āclāmmod, gemynd langra fara þonne ǣlc stæpe hefigra þūhte þonne se ǣrra. Þā ealdan scōs þe be heorþe hangaþ secgaþ spell ārendracena, cempena, and hierda, þāra weorc wunode ofer þā cealdan tīda. On þǣm ūplandum fētaþ nȳten on gærsse þe of mōnþum drȳge is āblācnod, hiera styreness ūphēafende wolcnu þe drīfaþ and sceortlīce settlaþ, and siþþan mid þǣre ōþerre yste forswindaþ. On hāme hæfþ āblācnod scyrte, of cneorde tō cneorde giefen, stenc wudufȳres and sunnan manigra gēara, heard and getrīewe, nǣfre fullīce nīwe, nǣfre fullīce swīciende.
Þǣr sind wīsan þe þone langne dæg weorþiaþ, mete þe brūcþ þæs latostan þæs ærran gēares gehealdenra bēana oþþe wyrtruma, slāwe gesoden and mid heardum rindehlāfe geboden. On cycene is se wuduspon gesmēþod of gearum hrērunge, his helfe scīnende þǣr handa hine þūsendum gripon. On symbeldagum beweorpaþ þā plegan hīe selfe on clāþe mid rinde and eorþan gehīewodum, hweorfende spell þe gemunan ǣgþer ge þurst ge hærfest. Se tūnwebba sitt on geweofe, weorciende mid þrǣde of þǣm fleaxe þe þæt rēþoste weder þolode, clāþ wyrcende tō weorcscyrtum and tō cēapsaccum.
Tōdæg meaht þū þone þerscold feormian, metende þā līne þǣr sēo ūtere woruld þǣre inneran mēt. Þū meaht smyrian twēgen welnotode scōs, weorþiende þā stōwa þe hīe þē bǣron. Nim tīd tō clǣnsienne and tō bētanne hīredes tōl, oþþe wrīt ārendgewrit þām þe on drȳgran and dūstigran stōwe wunaþ. On ǣfenne waca þæt lēoht swā hit ofer þone flōr færeþ, and gefrēd þā stillnesse þe cymþ þonne sēo rēþe beorhtnes wanaþ, and hēo rūm eft dēopnesse giefþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hȳdfealu.
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