Still wīf cnēowlaþ on gærses, hire hēafod ymbhringed mid bēage dægesēagena and goldblōstmena. Þā blēda sind wearme of sunnan, hnesce wiþ hire fex. Hire hand rest on lēon mūþe, fingras līþe þā hwīle þe hēo his ceaflas belūcþ. Nān hrēam, nān swipu, nān þrēa ne bricþ þā stilnesse. Hire smylte geþyld flōwþ betwēonan him, strengre þonne ǣnig racenteah. On þǣre stilnesse sliehþ þæs lēon tægl on dūste, mūscelas līþigende under hire friþsuman gesihþe. Se bēag þe hēo werþ, nis tō sige, ac tō geþwǣrnesse, tācen þāra þe hīe selfe gewealdaþ ǣr hīe þæt wilde bebēodaþ.
Lange ǣr ofergēodon wegfarende hēahe muntas and wādon cōle ēa, ādrifene mid spellum gærsume þe under brerde glitnode. Hīe sehton ēastrandas mid trēowenum pannum, sand and wæter hweorfende oþþæt þā hefegestan flacor āna wunodon, ǣlc dǣl sunnanlēohtes on stāne geheald. Þis næs sōcn þām ungeþyldigum. Se weg nam tīda, dagas, hwīlum gēar. Sēo ēa hwisprode hire dīegolnessa þām āna þe eft and eft tō hire ofrum cōmon, handa stille, heortan smylte, ēagan sēcende þone glite betwēonan þām stānum. Sēo mēd, lȳtel and beorht, rest on heora handflatum swā gewitnes þæt līþe þurhwunung mæg winnan þæt nīed ne mæg.
On ealdum heallum worhton cræftigan mid fȳre and mid hamorum, þone dēorwyrþan mete on þynne lēaf tōstreccende. Hīe þrȳcdon þās ofer trēowene anlīcnessa, bogan hearpan, and handla þēawlicra calica, and brōhton scīma tō andweorce beganges and dæghwāmlīces līfes. Þæt weorc wæs earfoþe: ǣlc lēaf carfullīce gesmēþod mid glisendum, ǣlc wrincle fylgende þæs cræftmannes stillum rytmum. On sumum mynstrum brūcodon munecas þā lēaf tō onlīhtenne ealde bōca, heora stille geþyld hālig gewrit tō langsumre gærsume wendende. Tō mearcienne sige settan wīsend scīnende bēagas on hēafda plegmanna and lēoþwyrhtena, tācnu wuldres giefen nā þurh rēþne mægen, ac þurh þurhwununge and innera steore.
On cycenum glisaþ hunig, of bēobreode ādropen æfter geþyldigre tīde, hlāfas þe on trēowenum bordum tō cōlienne sind gesette. His swētnes, of wildum blōstmum mid carfullum bēon gegaderod, is still frēols on morgenmetebēodum. Þā ealdan giftbēagas, þurh mǣgþa forþ giefene, scīnaþ mid lēohte spella and gehealdenera behāta, heora hringas gewitnes langsumre hylde. Āt heorþe fōþ candelstafas þone endemestan glite æfennes, and tēoþ ǣlc ēage inn þā hwīle þe þæt hūs on æfen settaþ. Ūte rīpaþ hwǣte þurh langne sumor, ǣlc stela on winde būgende, hefig mid corne þe his welignesse tīde āh, nā nīede.
On tōdæges worulde mæg man þisne þēaw strengu weorþian mid berenne mynet, and gefēlan his behāt mēde þe þurh geþyld is geearnod. Drēop hunig on hlāf, and brūc slāwes gewinnes manigra daga on ǣlcum dropan. Glisa mæstlingcǣge, hring, oþþe lȳtel tol, and læt hit scīnan þā hwīle þe þū þā stillan handa þe hit scōpon, gemyndgast. Oþþe wind blōstmbēag þē selfum oþþe frēonde, and wer þæt ealde tācen stilles gewealdes.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Gold.
Lucky Color: Gold — #FFD700Ber geþyld and līþe mægen on ǣlcne tīman, for þām þe sēo mǣste strengu is oft still.