Se blōstmbēag rest stille ufan þǣre anlīcnesse fexe, his grund of ādrȳgdum stelum gewriden, blēda gesette swā hnesce mearca betwēonan þām loccum. Hand, trum ac smylt, lǣt þone hefigan ceafl lēon tō belūcenne, nā mid ætīewednesse nīede ac mid līþre þurhwununge þe wildnes līþaþ. Stilnes gaderaþ ymbe hīe, stilnes þe nis nā wācnes and nā ege, ac se orþ geheald betwēonan ālǣtennesse and forhæfdnesse. Se lēo, mūscel and hǣtu, gieldeþ þǣre geþylde þe þurh hrinen is geþrǣden, hrinen þe cann þone tōdāl betwēonan ofermōde and carfulnesse. Þes tīma is ūt getogen, geþyldig swā þā handa þe þrǣd of līne spinnaþ, slāw swā rīpend corn.
On nīedrum landum þǣr sēo ēa bīegþ and sēo lyft swēte is mid stence drȳgendes gærses, wāgiaþ rǣwa smælra wyrta under ǣrestan morgenmiste. Heora blōstman sind blāce, nēah þurhsīene, and heora stelan, þonne hīe gegaderode sind, bēoþ on hēapum gebundne and tō līþienne mid līþum cosse dēawes forlǣtene. Þis is weorc þe gǣþ forþ, stille and būtan hræde, swā hit gēarhundum dyde. Under heofone þe gȳt of dægrēde blāc is, būgaþ wyrhtan tō gaderienne þā stelan, and lecgaþ hīe on feldum tō rotienne æfter hærfeste. Sēo wendung is slāw, fram ēage behȳded, þā hwīle þe wæter þā þrǣdas ālīesaþ. Siþþan, on sceadum rūmum, wrīþaþ strange handa þās heardan þrǣdas on sum smēþe, sum þe tō clāþe wierþ swā lēoht swā orþ, clāþ þe on openum ēagþȳrelum blāwþ and līnaþ cradelu cilda.
On cōlum rūmum behindan þiccum stānwāgum būgaþ wīf and weras ofer spinlhweol, heora styrenessa geþēawode and unhræde. Swēg þæs spinles is se āna swēg, drēam þe mearcaþ þone tōdāl betwēonan irre and willan. Þis is weorc þe ne mæg bēon gehræd. Se þrǣd sceal lȳt and lȳt gieldan, his wiþerstandennes mid geþylde gemēted. Ofer tīda and gēar wierþ swylc weorc cyn smēagunge, lār þǣre strengu þe cymþ þonne handa ne nīedaþ ac lāþiaþ. Se clāþ þe forþcymþ, is langsum, and þēah smēþe, strang genōg tō þurhwunienne gēar brūces ac hnesce genōg tō frēfrigenne feforlic cild oþþe tō scyldenne nīwe cild fram sunnan.
Þǣr feorre sǣecgan wind mētaþ, bǣron scipu hwīlum trussas þisses clāþes, weorþne for þȳ þe hē cōlnesse on sumere healdan mihte and wǣtme þonne þæt weder wende. On stillum rūmum bǣron bēodclāþas and bedscēatas, wrigels and tunecan of his þrǣdum seowede, spell felda and mǣgþa, handa þe ne hræddon, storma þe wǣron þurhwunod and tīda þe wendon. Ēac on beorhtnesse middæges, þonne sēo sunne hǣtu on ǣlcne hyrne þringþ, hangþ se clāþ on durum, þone dæg onfōnde mid smyltnesse þe mid ǣlcum þwǣle hnescran wierþ.
Þǣr sind lȳtel þing þe man dōn mæg tō tēonne þās stillan strengu nēar: ontȳn ēagþȳrel and læt þone wind ofer clāþe on bēode flēogan, feald nīwne scēat and þē on æfenne ymbe þīnum sculdrum, bregd striccan ādrȳgdes gærses and sete hine þǣr þū wyrcst, slæc þīne stæpas þā hwīle þe þū þurh wyrtūn æt dægrēde gǣst. Geþyld þāra ealdan felda wunaþ on þissum gebǣrum, still puls under swēge dæghwāmlīces līfes.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Līnhwīt.
Lucky Color: Linen — #FAF0E6Stilnes is hīw strengu, and nīed ne dēþ nǣnigne hlyd.