Ofer þæt land swēgþ bȳme, sweotol and āfǣrende. Hire swēgas feallaþ þurh þā wolcnu, and āweccaþ þā þe swīgende and stille on hefigum trēowenum cistum licgon. Þā hlyd āslīdaþ. Lyft, scearp and ceald, ræsþ ofer andwlitan þe þisse clypunge gebiden habbaþ, andwlitan þe nū ūp wendaþ. Sēo tīd nis līþe, ac hēo nis wælhrēow. Hēo is ānfealdlīce nēod: endemest edclypung tō þēnunge, wendung of slǣpe tō rǣde. On þissum nīwan lēohte is sēo woruld ǣgþer ge cūþ ge eallunga gewend.
Of þisse tīde ūpræse faraþ swēgas nā ānlīce þurh þone heofon ac ofer tīda and land. On feorrum stōwum mæg þǣre bȳman clypung bēon gemēted mid clenge cræftiges tōla on heardum, blācum andwlite, smēþiende tēþ on menigfealde cambas oþþe on gripe lēofes cnīfes. Hefignes is on þissum weorce, andgit fæstnesse. On ealdum cēapstōwum þǣr cēapmenn gegaderodon, fōron swelce þing of handa tō handa, and bǣron spell langra ēa, eowda on sunnan, and þǣre stillan geþylde þāra þe þone andefn on pianocǣgas and taflstānas ceorfon. Ǣlc gefylled andefn glēom mid behāte sumes þurhwunigendes and seldnes þinges, tācn cræftes, geþylde, and weorþes tō āwæccenne þæt þe innan behȳded is.
On stillum rūmum ealdra hūsa biþ þǣre bȳman edniwung onscīned on glēme hēapbēaga on brȳdhrægle, wærlīce gehealdan betwēonan līnum. Þās dēoran þing restaþ on ceder cistum, heora smēþan andwlite healdende gemynd wærlīcra fingra þe hīe fæstnodon ǣr dæge behāta. Stilnes is on þām rūme, swā þǣre bȳman clypung þurh þæt clāþ self gefaren hæbbe, and ealde spell cīgde tō arīsanne on þā andweardnesse. Andweardnes þissa þinga, þæs ācorfenan hīwes, þæs infægedan cestes, þǣre cǣge under pianistes handa, gemyngaþ þæt wendung nis ānlīce micel, ac mæg settan on lȳtlum þeawum. On heora lēoman ongiet man þā līþan gewisse wendunge, and þone mōd þe behōfaþ tō andswarienne clypunge.
Se weder, ēac, bringþ þās tīd nēah. Morgenas sind þonne mist þā ceaster wrīhþ, þicce swā flīes, and ālcne swēg dīefaþ. Hē clifaþ tō ēagþȳrelum and strǣtleohtum, and wendþ cūþe hyrnas on līþe dīegelnessa. Menn stæppaþ ūt on þās stilnesse, swā hīe eft on þā worulde gāþ æfter langum slǣpe. Se mist ūp āhēfþ slāwe, and þā hwīle þe hē swā dēþ, cumaþ nīwe hīw forþ: se stīpel, se ūpāstrecceda earm nēahgebūres, se weg fore. On þisse stilnesse is mægþ nīwes anginnes swā hrīnendlic swā þǣre bȳman ǣreste swēg.
Tōdæg þū meaht eald lāc of his ceste niman and healdan hit on þīnre handa, and lǣtan his smēþnesse þē gemynegian cræftes and þeawa. Þū meaht ābīdan tō wrītenne mid penne þe cōl and fæst betwēonan þīnum fingrum fēleþ, oþþe ceosan þone disc mid rīme hnesces ācorfes tō þīnum morgenhlāfe. Gif se weder mist bringþ, gā stillulīce āne tīd ǣr se heofon clǣnsaþ, and hlyst hwæt þē tō arīsanne cīgian mæge.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Elpendbān.
Lucky Color: Ivory — #FFFFF0Sweotol andswaru bītt on ungewēnedum stōwum, and lǣt þæs dæges beorhte anginn þē lǣdan.