Þǣre cartan anlīcnes, ymbgān mid bēage þe nǣfre fullīce belūcþ, stent on þām þerscolde. Þǣre wrǣde cnotta, ǣr beclypped, is nū slæc. Þā handa habbaþ hine forlǣten, and heora weorc ætstent on midde dǣde. Ymb hīe waciaþ fēower hīw, se fearr, se lēo, se earn, se mann. Hīe ne sprecaþ, ac þyncaþ bīdan, ēagan fæste on þǣre wane þæs bēages. Hēo nis nāþer inne ne ūte, wegfarende on mearce twēgra steda, mid ānum fēt gȳt on stāne þǣre ealdan burge. Lyft styreþ þā lēaf bufan hire hēafde, þā ealdostan lēaf, þicce and gewridene, þā þe drȳge and wind gemunaþ.
Hēo stent on ecge elegrāfes on latemestan sumere, þǣr grāfode trummas of ealdum wyrttruman windaþ. Þā trēow sind sceorte, heora helmas þicce, and se grund under him hielt þone biteran wæstm nīehstan tīde. On sceade restaþ hærfestwindlas on bæc āwend be wudenum gāfele, his tīnas smēþe gewērode. Se lyft hēr is hefig mid stence āwringenes eles, ārlic and scearp, and sēo molde is bestōwen mid feallenum lēafum and mid glisne snæglscella. Begēondan þām grāfe sind þā hlīþas mid stægerum gelīnode, ǣlc weall mid handa gestabelod, stān on stāne, tīde æfter tīde. Hit is stōw þǣr endas and anginn tōmyltaþ, þǣr se nīehsta wæstm biþ genumen, ac þæt weorc nā gȳt gedōn.
On spelle Aþēnan sett sēo gyden hire cēas tō þǣre burge mid ānre giefe: þām trēowe þe fȳr and ymbsetl oferstīhþ, his bōgas tō bēagum gewridene sigefæstum, his wudu corfen tō tōlum and tō bledum. Þā þe þās grāfas begīmaþ wyrcaþ on stilnesse ǣr dægrēd, handa gemearcode mid ele. Hīe cunnon geþyld slāwes rīpes. Sume tīda misþēoþ se hærfest, ac þā trēow wuniaþ. On ǣlcere cycene hēr healdaþ hefige croccan þæt þe āwringen and gehealden wæs, mid lage lāfe on þām botme, gemynd þæs þe wunaþ þonne se symbel forgān is.
Wegfarende on þām ealdan Rōmāniscan wege bīdaþ æt lȳtlum cumena hūse, þǣr þā hrofbēamas sind of þām ilcan wuda swā þā grāfas. On þām heorþe sēoþ cetel, and wealleþ lēaf gegaderod of wildum þūfum on ecge þæs grāfes, scearp and teorwig. Se lyft is þicce mid smīce bōga þe tō wintres warmþe sind forbærnde. Hyrde āfeormaþ dūst of his sciccele, geweofen of grōfum wulle scēapa þe betwēonan þām trumum gǣrsiaþ. Hē sitt on þām duru, and lōcaþ ūt þā hwīle þe wolcnu gaderiaþ ofer þām nīþerum hlīþum. Se heofon is hlid, hefig and bīdende, and stenc rēnes is feorr ac gewiss. Se wind cymþ, and berþ behāt hweorfendes wedres.
On þǣre burge hangaþ wīnlēaf of ofersceade, and scēadaþ þone middegbēod. Hēr grint wīf wyrta mid mortere of ealdum stāne, hire handa trume of gēarum edlāces. Hēo hlyst æfter hrætle drȳgra lēafa on þām geardes, tācn þæt se hærfest nēah is. On þām ēagþȳrelsetle hielt rǣw glæsfata ele and sealtwæter, and hlāf, rinde þicce, cruma þicce, resteþ be scealdum disce. Hit is mēl þæs betwēoxes, tō etanne þā hwīle þe man bīdeþ þæs þe cymþ.
Tōdæg mæg mann gān under ealdum trēowum, and dweliende lēaf gaderian tō drȳcanne betwēonan leafum bōce. Hē mihte hæft wudenes tōles gladian, oþþe croccan wyrta and eles hrēran þe on þām ofne tō weallenne is forlǣten. On nōntīde is gōd sittan be ēagþȳrele þā hwīle þe se weder wendeþ, handa bisige mid bētinge oþþe mid tōdǣlunge windles forgitenra þinga.
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