Rīdere færþ forþ, and berþ blāce blōstme, þā hwīle þe sēo dægrēd þrǣd hire ǣreste lēoht betwēonan twām feorrum torrum. Se feld under þām horse is stille, gemearcod mid þām þe is forlǣten. Bufan dēopaþ se heofon, and healdþ þā stilnesse ealles þæs þe geendod is. Þā torras standaþ swā swīgende gewitan. Heora hīw is unawended, ac heora þēnung wendþ þonne se dæg tōbirst. On þissum stede gefylleþ ān spelldǣl hine selfne, and lǣt rūm þām līnum þe gȳt ne sind āwriten.
On ealdum spellum is se hræfn gefēra swelcra tīda, nā eallunga ondrǣded, nā eallunga wilcuma. Hē nimþ þone hēafod bǣres trēowes, oþþe þone hrōfbēam forlǣtenre cirican, and ābītt swā hē sēo þā worulde wendan. Be ealdum wegum findþ man clūdas gagātes, stānas of ealdum wuda þurh gear gedrungene, and wegfarende gaderiaþ hīe tō tācne, þæt ān færeld sīe belocen and ōþer ongunnen. On þām heorþe restaþ þā lāfe nihtlican fȳres on bedde of ascan, smēocende gemynd þæt wærmþ and lēoht sind ā borgen, nǣfre gehealdene.
On stillum hyrnum þæs dæghwamlīcan līfes healdaþ þing gemynd and geþyld. Se īsenen hwer sitt ofer þām glēdum, getrȳwe ofer cneorissa, and his hīw is gemearcod mid þǣre sage unārīmedra mēla. Of him is se sopp āgoten, ānfeald and fēdende, gebrowen of þām þe biþ æfter þām hærfeste, þonne se wæstm is gehealden oþþe geeten. Fealdscēadas of trēowe mid lacce gefrætwod tōdǣlaþ rūm æt midre nihte, and giefaþ dīegelnesse and lēafe tō forlǣtenne ānne healfe and tō farenne ofer on ōþerne. On þām leornunghūse stent se penn þe blæc healdþ, gefylled mid dēopum blæce, gearu. Ǣlc līne þe is getogen on þiccum leafe berþ þā gewisse endes and þā openesse anginna.
Ofer þæt land geofaþ sēo niht ānne ābīd. On hēagum beorgwegum wyrcaþ wīcmenn heora geteld of fæste āwefenre wulle, and staciaþ hīe wiþ wind and ceald. Innan is sēo woruld stille, and ūtan healdaþ þā þēostru gehātan ōþres weges. On mynstrum, ǣr þǣre ǣrestan belle, grindaþ munecas blæc on stāne, and gearwiaþ tō wrītanne gebedu. Ǣlc strica is gewrit þæs þe man sceall forlǣtan, and þæs þe man mæg hopian. Se blæc ne forgiet. Hē gemunaþ ǣgþer ge belūcinge ge willan.
Se weder dǣlþ ēac his dǣl. Þunorwolcen gaderaþ ofer þām feldum, and his cyme tācnaþ brice þǣre gewunan. Rēgn fealleþ fæstlīce, and drēmaþ on sclātenum hrōfum, and berþ āweg þā weorpas, and clǣnsaþ þone lyft. Þā strǣta scīnaþ, āþwogene of giestrandæges dūste, and onscīnaþ þæs nīwan dæges blācan glēd. On þǣre stilnesse æfter þām rēgne fēleþ sēo ceaster ǣmtig, and bītt fōtlastas þe þæt nīehste hiw tēoþ.
Gif þū wilt þā tīd gemearcian, þū meaht tē drincan þe is gebrowen on īsene cytele, and lǣtan þone stēam windan þurh þone cōlan lyft, þā hwīle þe þū smēast hwæt is gearu tō āsættanne. Þū meaht swāpan þā lāfe forþgewitenes tīman ascan of þām heorþe, and strēgan hīe betwēonan þām wyrttruman þæs þe gehwylce gēar eft grēwþ. Nim bōc þe is gebunden on deorcum leþere, ontȳn tō nīwum leafe, and wrīt hwæt þū eart gearu tō forlǣtenne. Oþþe gā ūt on þǣre tīde ǣr sunnan ūpgange, and stand under þām ealdostan trēowe, and hlyst þæs fiþerhræstes, gemynd þæt ālc ende gearwaþ þone grund þæs þe gȳt nis geþōht.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blæc.
Lucky Color: Black — #000000On endum þe þone weg clǣnsiaþ is frōfor, and ālc belūcing healdþ þæt hīw þæs þe æfter cymþ.