On dōmstōwe þǣre Rihtwīsnesse hangap twā wǣgan of bēame, and ǣlc earm is hēah geheald mid wēne emnetes. Feþer on ānrre healf, stān on þǣre ōþerre. Ac tōdæg sægþ ān healf hefiglīce, and sēo ōþer wunaþ bīdende. Se stōl behindan þǣre bence sitt īdel, his gecorfene bæc wiþ sunnlēas ēagþȳrel gewend. Þēaw wegunge gǣþ forþ, ac heorte þæs þinges ætfēole is, and þæt rūm is gefylled mid stilnesse þe fylgþ æfter þām þe dōm biþ ylded.
Ūte berþ se wind stenc īsenes and ealdre eorþan. Þǣr is gemynd smiþþan dēope on wuda, þǣr ofen hwīlum glēow on nīedre stāncote. Þæs ofnes duru gānþ open, glēda cōle, tange unbrocene on wāge hangende. Þǣr, on forþgewitenum, tugon rūge handa ecga of þām glēdum, heora brerd fōnde þā plegende sceadwa. On þǣre stilnesse tōclōf granatæppel on weorcbēode, sǣd tōsprǣdd ofer þām grāne. Ǣlc sǣd is geinseglod behāt, ungelēanod gylt, heora wōs fingras and trēow samod dēagende. On spelle wæs Persephones cēap mid swylcum sǣdum tōbrocen, hire ætfēolnes hieldende endebyrdnesse tīda and lǣfende þā woruld on bīdunge betwēonan wæstme and forweornunge.
Furþor west, on ealdre byrig, is felwetwahrift on rǣdcleofan getogen, and belūcþ þæs ganges lēohtfæt. Behindan him restaþ scealfe lagbōca unāstyrede. Þæs bōceres blæcfat on þām bēode is drȳge, sēo feþer onsundor gesett. Weaxinsegl ærendgewrites, hrædlīce mid insegle geþrȳcced, sitt unbrocen betwēonan þām gedrēfe. Sēo bodung innan bītt ēagum þe āwende sind, handa þe hit ontȳne and þā wǣgan eft tō styrenesse hielde.
On lande, under hefigum heofonum, clifiaþ lætre hærfestes lēaf wildes hæghyrnes heges stearclīce tō heora bogum. Se ǣresta forst cōm and ēode, ac þā lēaf wuniaþ, deorc and leþerig, heora scearpan þornas behȳdende. Gēarhundum lǣfdon wegfarende lāc under þissum bogum on hyhte rihtes dōmes of ungesewenum gāstum. Nū licgaþ þā tācnu unhrinen: mynet on eorþan geþrȳcced, gefealdod lāf clāþes, hlāfrind þe heard geworden is. Būtan gewitan is se gecwide betwēonan wegfarende and ealdum hege ungesett forlǣten.
On heorþe æt hām wylþ coporcroc ungeheald, his innung þiccende þā hwīle þe se fȳr nēah dēaþ. Sēo lār is on foregengan handa gewriten, hire word slāwe hweorfende ofer ādimmodum scēate. Būtan endemestan gripe wyrtgemanges is se briw ungefylled forlǣten, his stenc þā cycene fyllende and þēah behātende healf þæs þe wæs gehopod āna. Āt ecge þæs bēodes is scearscēar open forlǣten be sīdan rinde granatæpples and twige hæghyrnes, gemynd forlǣtenra weorca and bīdunge on rihtre endebyrdnesse.
Man mæg fȳrsticcan āstrīcan and þone cycenfȳr eft ontendan, þone crocc hrēriende tō ātēonne þone ætfēolan smæcc. Sēc þæt unontȳnede ærendgewrit, brec his insegl, and rǣd þā word on dimmum æfenlēohte. Gā tō þām hege and lege þīne handflatan līþe on þā wērigan rinde, and oncnāw þone gecwide, ēac gif nān mann þǣr nis tō sēonne. Nim þā scearra, forceorf þæt þe sceal bēon corfen, and gadera þā tōsprǣddan sǣd, and bring hīe eft tō eorþan mid stillum āþe.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc rēad.
Lucky Color: DarkRed — #8B0000Mid ǣlcere dǣde biþ emnet gelāþod, ēac þā hwīle þe þā wǣgan heora healdend bīdaþ, for þām þe bīdung rihtes nis his ende.