Sēo bȳme swēgþ ofer þone feld, ac þā slǣpendan þryccaþ folmas wiþ heora ēaran and eft on heora cistum crēopaþ. Marmarfiþera, ācorfene of tīde, weorpaþ heora sceadwa ofer moldan geþrungene mid gearhundum dōma ungedōnra and sōþa ungesprecenra. Tīd ūpræse is cumen and āweg, and þēah ymlendaþ hīw æt ecge, tāas brēadende trēowene ecge byrgenne, unwillende forþ tō stæppenne oþþe eft tō licgenne. Sēo woruld bītt dōmes, ac se lyft healdþ fremde stilnesse, swā se grund self gefangen sīe betwēonan giestrandæge and tōmorgen.
On heortan Italie, nēah hyllum þiccum mid olīftrēowum, biþ eorþe gewend tō hīwe and tō cēape. Gearhundum ǣr wearþ ceaster cūþ for eorþan gedolfenre of hire feldum, gedrēfedre and gemylenre on cācas tō mǣtenne wēofodbred and hrægl hālgena. Cēapmenn wēgon handful þisses lāmes wegfarendum, cræftum, and stānwyrhtum, his dēope swēg mearciende mētinga on capellum and naman on forewordum. Of þisse ceastre fōron cratu ūt, berende bundelas geþrungene mid dūste ealdra hylla, bewundene on clāþe tō healdanne þæt melu fram āgēotenne on cinan þæs wægnes. Ealde mēteras grundon hit on morterum, heora cnucelas gemǣlede mid þǣre lāfe, þā hwīle þe hīe hit on ele mengdon tō wrīhenne Madonna hlēor oþþe hālgena hacelas on sceadwe.
On cycenum hangaþ rōsmarīnus and sāge of bēamum, and hlāf bæcþ on ofnum getimbrodum of ēarīmstāne. Se rind heardaþ, rūh and gecracod, swīþe swā þā tiglas þe man on Tuscan hrōfum findþ æfter drȳgre tīde. Eorþtilian clǣnsiaþ heora tōl æfter langum dæge, þā gripan āwerede of gearum hærfestes and plantunge, se glōm swātes and eorþan gemenged on þone grīn. Crocc lenticstēawes sēoþþ nīþerlīce, his andwlite fōnde þā endemestan leoman sunnan þe þurh þæt latteas sīhþ. Se lyft berþ stenc wǣtes lāmes æfter seldnum rēgne, þære cynne þe līþelīce fealleþ and hrædlīce ādwīnþ, and lǣfþ þǣre ceastre weallas gestreagode and þā cypressewyrttruman drincende þæt lȳtle þe geboden biþ.
Weder is, ēac, þe þisse geþylde and inwununge cȳþþ: mist þe late on ǣfenne ofer wīngerdum sett, and dīefaþ ecga þinga and macaþ þā worulde lȳtle. On þǣre stilnesse mæg cræftige hire healfgefremede crocc āsīdan, þæt hweol gȳt spinnende, ungewiss hwæþer þæt hīw full sīe. Cēapmenn æt cēapstōwe hordaþ heora gōd, and dūstaþ lāfe hīwes þe on heora fingrum clīfde þā hwīle þe hīe þā eorþan wēgon mēterum and weallwyrhtum. Pilgrim, scōs geclāmode of þām wege, sitt mid his hrycge wiþ sunnanwærmum wealle and lōcaþ ǣfen gaderian, and wiþstent þone willa forþ tō farenne, witende þæt dægrēd his frignunge eft bringþ.
Gif þū wilt mid þissum dæge faran, cned hlāf mid þīnum handum, and gefrēde þæt melu and wæter tōgædere cuman. Rǣd þīnne þūman ofer wel āweredne gripa, and gemyne ǣlc weorc þe hē þē geholpen hæfþ gefyllan and ǣlc þe gȳt bītt. Ontȳn crocc eorþan, āþīg þone stillan ǣrstenc ǣr þū hine tō þīnum weorce ēacst. Sit on þām þerscolde æt ǣfenne, and lǣt þone ābīd þē lǣran hwæt be þām rūmum betwēonan dōmum.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Eorþbrūn.
Lucky Color: Sienna — #A0522DÞām þe bīdaþ, geman se grund under ǣlcne stæpe, and on yldunge gaderaþ stillu strengu, gearu þǣre nīehstan clypunge.