Rīdere þringþ forþ æt dægrēde, and his glōfode hand berþ blōstme mid siexum līþum bladum, þe līþelīce on þām nīwan lyfte swæccaþ. Hit nis se ceald nihte, nā gȳt se bryne middæges, ac stōw betwēonan: se lāf mistes þe ofer feldum ymlendaþ, sēo stilnes þe cymþ ǣr þǣre ceastre wæcce. Betwēonan twām torrum healdþ se heofon his ǣþm, and þæs rīderes hors hnæppþ stillulīce þǣr gærs stān gemēteþ. Ende ānes spelldǣles wierþ se swīgende mearc ōþres.
Hwæt is on þæs rīderes handa þe hwīlum gehīerde tō ealdum dēore, þe be ofrum feorrera ēa fērde. Þonne þæt nīeten feoll, wæs his langa gebogena tōþ ūp ādolfen þām þe his andwlite worhton on cǣga pianos oþþe on gripe ǣrendcnīfes, smēþe under þām þūman. Gearhundum ǣr wurdon þās tēþ tēþ rīces, and bǣron þā hefignesse cēapes and þā sceadwe ācwealmesse. And hēr, on tācne þǣre blōstman, is þæt ealde bān gewend tō sumum līþum þinge, and se gemynd endes wendþ sōfte tō edniwunge.
Þā torras æt þām orierde gelīciaþ geatum ealdra ceastra, stōwum þǣr stānene lēon hwīlum þæt gemǣre hēoldon betwēonan þām forþgewitenan and þām uncūþan. Innan swelcum geatum habbaþ cēapmenn cornas rīses gemeten mid sceapum ācorfenum of þām ilcan dēorwyrþan andefne swā þā taflstānas þe on borde bīdaþ. On nearwum cycenum hrērþ cōc rīsbriw on scealdum bolle, and þā corn swellaþ and hnesciaþ, mēl ǣgþer ge ānfeald ge symbellīc, gelimplīc tō belūcinge tīde. Of hēagum pāgodum feorrum landum oþ gripan þāra pensela þe man tō bōcstafum brȳcþ, hafaþ þes andefn gemearcod þone wærlīcan fær of dēaþe tō līfe, of þām þe geendod is tō þām þe nū onginnþ.
Gif þū gǣst ūt on þone ǣran morgen, is se lyft swā līþe swā þæt dūst þe of andwlite pianocǣge is ābrēad. Sēo sunne nis gȳt scearp, āseofen þurh þynne wolcnu, weder þe tō stillre wendunge lāþaþ. Āt hām þū meaht camb findan þe on þīnum scrīne rest, ācorfen of ānum sticcan, tōl tō smēþienne feax ǣr nīwum dæge. Oþþe þū meaht ābīdan be ēagþȳrele, and lociān þā hnesnesse on blæde þe on þone hline gefeallen is, his hrīnung behātende lenctenes edcier æfter wintres stilnesse. Hīw dura, nīwlīce gemetod, hīnt fær of rūme tō rūme, unongieten þām mǣstum, and þēah sōþ þerscold.
Tōdæg þū meaht taflstān settan on þone bord mid ealdum gefēran, and lǣtan þone clinc þē gemynegian þæt ālc styrunge berþ swēg þinga þe geendod sind and þinga þe ontȳnan magon. Þū meaht corn on bolle hrēran, and wendan hīe mid care þā hwīle þe þū geþencst þā handa þe þæt sceap worhton þe þū brȳcst. Þū meaht ǣrendgewrit ontȳnan mid cnīfe þe tō þisse lȳtlan þēnunge geworht is, and lǣtan þā dǣd lāþian nīwra ǣrenda mægþe. Gif se weder lǣfþ, lǣt ēagþȳrel opene þā hwīle þe þū slǣpst, þæt se līþa lyft æt dægrēde inslīde and þē gemynegige þæt ālc ende inbringþ sum stillu and cwic þing.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Elpendbān.
Lucky Color: Ivory — #FFFFF0Hrīn tōdæg ecge sumes ealdes þinges, and ongiet þæt hīw þæs þe æfter cymþ.