Þæt hwēol ætstent on midre hweorfunge, se wyrp wyrde ābrocen. On ealdum spellum wæs þis sēo tīd þonne hand, wērig þurhwunigendre hweorfunge, hīe selfe on þone rīman sette and niþer drȳcde, cunnende hīw þǣre tīde on stede tō healdenne. Þæt Wyrde Hwēol, þus āwend, nis nā se wilde ȳþung tīda and wyrda, ac mā stilnes hefignesse þe wiþstent. Þā ealdan tācnu, nīetenu, cyningas, sēo sphinx mid hire rǣdelse, bīdaþ on heora bogan, lōciende on ǣfen þe nāþer dēopaþ ne āhefþ. On þisse setennesse ne swāpaþ ymbhwyrftas gelimpes ūs of fōtum. Hīe gaderiaþ mā on stillum hyrnum gelifedra daga.
Hlīþ on latemestan sumere, bewrogen mid rǣwum elebēama, stent under heofone þe rēn þrēataþ ac nǣfre hine ālīeseþ. Se wæstm is rīpe, glisniende and hefig, bīdende þā handa þe mid windlum and mid racum cumaþ, ac þæt weorc is ylded: se grund is slipig, and se lyft stincþ eorþan and lēafes. Þā trēow habbaþ gēara geþolod, heora trummas gewridene mid tīde and wedre. Heora lēaf, smalu and heard, fōþ þone wind, and on tīdum stilnesse is heora styrenes uneaþe gefēled, lāþung tō bīdienne mā þonne tō dōnne, tō lǣtenne þone ymbhwyrft orþes bīdan. Under wyrcaþ mōs and feallene twigu mēþne fōtscēat, sūpende fōtswaþu þāra þe betwēonan þām trumum gāþ.
On þǣre cycene sitt lǣmen crocca on bēode, gemearcod mid ele þe þurh his poras sāg. Hē hielt gedrȳcnedne cræft nīehstan hærfestes, bīdende brūces on gemetenum dǣlum. Nān þing on þissum rūme nis ofhræd. Hand rǣcþ æfter pilstæfe and mortere, grindende wyrta gehærfestode of þām wyrtūne ūte. Betwēonan him sind rōsmarīn and lāwer, ādrūgode and scearpe, gemynd healdnesse and geþyldes. Se stenc ārīst, mæncgende wiþ þām ele, berende behāt mēla geworhtra mid þām þe þurhwunaþ, nā mid þām þe hrædlīce oþþe ēaþelīce cymþ.
On stǣre fōron cempan ofer landscipum þǣr wilde elegrāfas ecge rīca ymbstōdon, heora hyrst ādeafod mid dūste, heora fōda gestenced mid þām þe hīe findan mihton. Wudu þāra trēowa worhte scildas and lȳtel þing, ānfald þing āmǣnd tō þurhwunienne. Cēapmannes bōc āwrīt sendednesse āwringenes eles, his leaf bespitelod mid rēne, se blæc lȳtel yrnende þā hwīle þe se weder wiþheold fram fullum storme. Spell wuniaþ on þissum þingum, þæt geþyldiga weorc tilþe, se willendlīca ætstent cēapes þonne wegas wǣron ungefēre lām mā þonne wegas gelimpes.
Weder hæfþ his āgenne weg tō ætstentenne þæt hwēol. Storm gaderaþ ofer þām ilcum hlīþum, nā gȳt brecende. Þā wolcnu sind þicce and niþere, þæt lēoht innweard āwend. On þissum āhangenan tīman gaderiaþ scēap under þām elebēamum, heora styrenes slāw, ceowende gærs þe þurh drȳge þurhwunodon. Se hyrde bīdeþ, hlinende on his stæfe, hlystende feorrum þunre þe þyncþ swā tweonig swā se dæg self. Is gefēl þæs þe wiþhealden biþ, mægnes gehealdenes on wyrttruman and molde, ymbhwyrfta þe wiþsacaþ tō hweorfenne oþ þā tīda riht sind.
Tō ārianne þissum tīman meaht þū gān under ealdum trēowum, and lætan þīne fēt trumran grund betwēonan heora wyrttruman findan. Þū meaht croccan on sīde settan tō mergenes brūce, wiþstandende willan tō ūtāgēotenne hine ealne on āne tīd. Þū meaht wyrta betwēonan leafum bōce drȳcan, healdende heora hīw tō slāwran tīde. Oþþe þū meaht āna sittan æt ēagþȳrele, waciende þone heofon hine gaderian, and underfōn þæt wyrd hwīlum þearf restan swā micle swā hweorfan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc elegrēne.
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