Wīf stent under þām wīdan heofone, hire hand līþe restende on ceaflum lēon. Hēo werþ cynehelm of wildum blōstmum gegaderodum of stillum mǣdum, blēda tōgædere gewefene on geþyldigre hweorfunge. Þæs lēon ēagan belūcaþ, nā on slege, ac on getrēowe. Hire hrinen is still, hire andweardnes hnesce, and nis nān hlūd bebodu. Heora strengu nis hrēam ac still gecwide, gefēled on þām stede þǣr hire handflata and þæs lēon manu mētaþ, on stilnesse gedǣledre eorþan. Þæt gærs bifaþ līþe on winde, būgende ac nā brecende, ǣlc stela gewyrttrumod on his stede.
Of þām ǣrestum tūnum leornodon menn hū hīe līf of eorþan selfre ātēon sceoldon. On landum þe slāwe ēa ofergēodon, plantodon hīredas sǣd on carfullum rǣwum þǣr sēo eorþe dēop wæs. Ofer mōnþas ārison þās feldas, þicce mid stelum and mid wāgiendum hēafdum, ǣlc gewitnes geþyldes. Þæt weorc wæs slāw, handa sǣd tōsprǣddende, oxan lǣdende, fūras mid trēowenum sulum scieppende. Æfter mōnþum healdunge bīddon tōl on sceade: sīþas gehyrdede tō ceorfanne, windla gewefene tō gaderienne, and grindstānas be heorþe gesette. Ǣlc weorc wæs dǣd stillre þurhwununge, līþe mægen wyrcende on rytmum mid þǣre worulde.
Se wind bær stenc rīpes cornes ofer feldlēas and inn opena duru, and behēt fōdan. Þonne stormas þrēadon, wācodon mǣgþa þone heofon, rǣdende hīw wolcna and gefēl þǣre lyfte, gearwe tō scyldenne þæt hīe gewexen hæfdon. On stilnesse ǣr rēne meahtest þū þæt hnesce hwisprung stela gehīeran þā hwīle þe hīe tōgædere bugon, þurhwuniende. Hærfest mǣnde gaderung nā fōdan āna, ac tīde and carfulnesse, slāwe fealdunge daga on ānne hlāf. Tō brecenne hlāf æt bēode wæs dǣd þancunge, dǣl ealles þæs þe geþyld giefan mihte.
Ǣlce tīd fōron wæstmas feldes feorr begeondan heora anginn. On crætum and on bātum styredon bundas þisses cornes of ānum hāme tō ōþrum, gewrixlede wiþ sealt oþþe clāþ oþþe spell of feorrum stōwum. On cycenum dūstode melu handa bæcera, and stenc nīwra hlāfa drāf þurh open ēagþȳrel. Mættas tō slǣpenne, hættas tō wyrcenne under sunnan, besman tō swāpenne heorþas, ealle of þām ilcan stelum gesceapene þe on feldum bugon. Þus fand still mægen landes weg inn on dæghwāmlic līf ǣlces hāmes, gemynd þæt strengu onginnþ mid healdunge and þurhwunaþ on þām lȳtlum, geedlǣcedum weorcum.
Þū meaht hlāf tōdæg bacan, melu tō fōdan mid geþyldigum handum wendende. Þū meaht þīnne flōr swāpan mid besman gebundenera stela, and rūm dōn þæt friþ sette. Tō wefanne wildu gærs oþþe ādrȳgde blōstman on ānfealdne bēag mæg tīd smyltnesse on þīnne stede bringan. On ǣlcere costnunge gemyndga þā feldas, hū hīe þurh drȳgþe and flōd þurhwuniaþ, and belūc þīnne āgenne mūþ līþe, and læt stilnesse sprecan þǣr nīed unstilnesse āna āstyrede.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwǣte.
Lucky Color: Wheat — #F5DEB3Læt strengu bēon þā stilnesse þe þurhwunaþ, for þām þe under geþylde wierþ ēac se wildosta gāst līþe.