Hēo sitt betwēonan swēorum þe hwīlum sceoldon þā stille mearca rihtes and wōhes mearcian, ac se stōl is ungeseten, þā wǣgan on þām bēode forlǣtene, hieldende tō þǣre healf þe þā ætfēolan heft āna hæfþ. On burgcēapstōwe āstīhþ dōmhūs of ealdum flōrstānum, his līmstānfægernes āwered mid tīdum drȳfes and mid gemynde sprǣca þe under oferscyddum heofonum wǣron gehealdene. Ēac se gargoyle þe ufan þām bogdum durum sitt, gecorfen mid stearcum, blindum ēagum, wacaþ ofer weorc þe nū mid īdelre þēawlicnesse clypiaþ, þā hwīle þe þæs dēmendes setl īdel sitt.
Gewrit þēawes gǣþ forþ, scēatas of bōcere tō bōcere giefene, fontænas scrīþende andlang þæs gerīmes. Ac heorte þæs þinges ætfēole is: se gewita þe sprecan sceolde, is forloren on rēndeorcum strǣtum, his weg forswolgen mid miste þe on hrōfum settaþ, and wǣteþ þā hrycgedan sclatas ufan. Þās ealdan tigelas, of muntseamu ādelfede and mid geþēawedum handum gesceapene, wyrcaþ fela hīwa geond þā burg. Hīe scyldaþ hām of þām unrōtan drȳfe, and lǣdaþ wæter on þēotan þe andlang ǣlces ofersleges yrnaþ. Þā hrōf sind ādimmode and weorþlice, berende wunda manigra wintra, nytwyrþe cynehelm þām hūsum niþer.
Begeondan þǣre byrig licgaþ stāndelfa æt ecge wuda, gefyllede mid stilnesse gewinnes þe bītt. Hēr habbaþ cneorissa cloddas of eorþan corfen, and hīe āhēapod tō hūsum, tō berum, and tō stæpum þe ūp tō þām dōmhūse lǣdaþ. Þāra stānwyrhtena tōl wuniaþ behindan: hamoras and īsern þe þǣr forlǣtene sind þǣr dæges weorc geendode, heora handfæst wǣte of þām þurhwuniendan miste. Ǣlc tol heald racu gewinnes, ac būtan handum þe hīe brūcen, īdelaþ willa on þǣre cōlan lyfte.
On cycene rest morgens hlāf on bēode, his rind cōlod swā under hrōfe ealdre sclate. Stēam rīst of gecræccedum calice on þām ēagþȳrele, þǣr hwā hwīlum wacode for hāmcumendre anlīcnesse þurh slāwne dropung rēnes. Se tēcrocc sitt be sīdan gefealdodum handclāþe, unbrocen, bīdende þæs gystes þe ne cōm. On oferslege sind lēaf plantedre lāwendelan mid dropum gemearcod, sēo wyrt þone dimman dæg onfōnde, stille þurh geþyldige wyrttruman wexende.
Ūte is middæges weder stilnes drȳfes, nā storm and nā smyltnes, se mist clifiende tō hræglum and tō regnscyldum þā hwīle þe menn hrædlīce forþgāþ be dōmhūsstæpum. Lagbēc licgaþ āhēapode on bence on forehūse, heora hrycgas berende gemynd endebyrdnesse, þā hwīle þe weorc innan furþor fram setle drīfaþ, hweorfende ymbe ætfēole gewitnesse, ætfēolne willan. Se rēn gǣþ forþ, still and hnesce, swā hē þā hieldinge þǣre wǣge healde, and lāþige smeagunge þæs þe uncweden is forlǣten.
Tō mētenne þisne dæg mæg man bīdan and hand on cōlne stān his þerscoldes settan ǣr hē gā. Hē mæg his scōþwanga æt ēagþȳrele cnyttan, scēawiende þā hrōf þone drȳf gaderian. Hē mæg ærendgewrit on hefigum scēate wrītan, and hit gehende þām tēcrocce settan swā lāþung þe gȳt open is. Oþþe hē mæg lēof tol glisian, ēac gif tōdæg nān weorc nis, and weorþian þæt gewinn þe gȳt tō cumenne is.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Stāngræg.
Lucky Color: SlateGray — #708090Sēo dōmstōw bītt hire gewitan, and þā hrōf healdaþ þone rēn.