Hring lēafa ymbgǣþ þā plegestran on midde stæpe, āhafen ofer gemōtstōwe fēower libbendra nīetena. Lēo, fearr, mann, and earn mearciaþ þā hyrnas, and heora andweardnes fæstnaþ stede þe þyncþ ǣgþer þerscold and hærfest. Se þrǣd þe þone bēag bint nis nā gleng āna, ac belūc færeldes: full ymbhwyrft gesewen, tīde weorc gefylled. Se plega nis nā ofhræd. Fōtswaþu hrīnaþ weg þe smēþe is geworden, æcer æfter þām þe se nīehsta stela is corfen.
Ofer feorrum and openum feldum wexþ sēo wyrt þe hire naman mid ymbhwyrfte þǣre plegestran dǣlþ, hēah and riht be middum sumere. Wind gǣþ þurh hīe on ȳþum, and þā hēafdu cornes hnigaþ tō heofone and tō eorþan. Hire ymbhwyrftas mearciaþ hweorfunge þæs gēares, geþyld sǣde and geþyld anbīdunge. On spelle and on lēoþe habbaþ godu and menn gegaderod on swilcum feldum þonne þæt ealde gēar wæs samod gefealden and þæt nīwe bād tō cnēdanne.
Þonne sēo tīd cymþ, stæppaþ menn forþ twām and þrim, sicolas on handa. Hīe bīegaþ and gaderiaþ þæt þe hīe begēmen hæfdon. Se scēaf, þonne hē corfen biþ, biþ fæste gebunden, scēaf þe hām biþ boren. Dūst and ceaf fōþ þā sunnan, and āne hwīle glisnaþ se lyft mid eallum þām þe gegaderod is: nā fōda āna, ac behāt fēdinge, wyrht hlāfes, dǣlung mēles. On sumum tūnum hangaþ bēag of þām nīehstum corfenum stelum ofer þǣre dura, tācn þæt se ymbhwyrft unbrocen is, þæt se hūs biþ gefēded and se hord full.
Cēapfēr gaderaþ seccas þisses cornes andlang ealdra wega, and gāþ of ānre ēadene tō ōþerre, and bindaþ feorre stōwa tōgædere. On ceapstōwe wierþ þæt corn hlāfas, ceacum, oþþe smēþe melu tō symbelcycelum. On cycenum biþ hit āsift, ācneden, gescapen. Bēod, mid cneorissum brȳces gewērod, biþ bestōwen and gearu þæt se dāh reste. Ēac on þām stillostum rūmum berþ se gōma þā dweliendan helmas, lāfa þǣre tīde þe forgǣþ.
On sumum stōwum biþ ende þæs hærfestes gemēt mid stilnesse. Stillu nōntīd, hefig mid warmþe and mid stence corfenra stela, siteþ on þām tūne. Hweorfung þæs gēares biþ gemearcod mid swīgan and mid þancunge, anbīdung ǣr se hlāf biþ gebrocen. Se weder hielt his orþ, swā þā ealdan spell secgaþ: is tīd þonne se ymbhwyrft biþ gefēged and eall gefylled.
Tōdæg meaht þū þrǣd drȳges gærses oþþe wrǣde bregdan and ofer þīnum þerscolde āhōn, oþþe dāh mid willan scieppan, and gemunan þā handa ǣr þīnum. Þū meaht cycene flōr carfullīce swāpan, and þæt þe wunaþ on lȳtelne scēaf gaderian, oþþe word þancunge wrītan and under hlāfe behȳdan ǣr hē bacþ. Ǣlc dǣd bint ōþerne cnottan on þām bēage, and belūcþ ānne ymbhwyrft and ontȳnþ ōþerne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwǣte.
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