Se engel stent mid twām wæterfatum, ac wæter spilþ niþer, ūt fleonde ǣr hit mæg bēon oferfered. Þæt þe sceolde bēon smylte gemengung oferflēowþ þone rand, gebeacn healf gefylled, and behāt emnetes brocen ǣr hit onginnþ. Sēo lyft healdeþ smæcc sumes scearpes and ungefylledes. Þis nis nā līþe gemengung, ac sēo hwīl þonne þing hieldaþ and handa swiciaþ. On swelcum hwīlum cīgþ sēo woruld tō tācnum hætan and drīfes, andweorc þe gewitniaþ þā scylde unemnetes and þone tēon eft tō sibbe.
Geond þone ealdan Wendelsǣ sind feld þǣr bitter wæstm hangþ of besmitenum bōgum, hira hȳd þicce and rūh, scīnende swā glōwende glēda under middæges sunnan. Geolorēade æppla tōberstaþ on þām grunde, ac gehende cracaþ se apulder mid his lǣþerenan scelle, mid mearcum manigra tīda bestæned, and ætīewþ heap sǣda, ælc glōwende, ælc gimm of þǣre eorþan āgenum blōde gedrēfed. Þās sǣd wǣron hwīlum gegaderod on Persephonē handa þā hēo þā mearce betwēonan woruldum oferfōr, ælc ān gemet tīde þe hēo sceolde under wunian. Þæt spell nis nā swētnesse, ac gesceādes, þǣre þynnan līnan þǣr tō micel oþþe tō lȳtel þā wǣge hieldeþ. Hēr nis se wæstm ān behāt. Hē is gemynd þæt ǣlc gemengung sceal bēon wacod, and ǣlc geþēodnes geheald.
On cēapstōwe on heortan Marrakech is sēo lyft þicce mid stence wyrtcræfta and mid hrēamum cīepena. On þām setlum licgaþ hēapas drȳgra hātra pipera, gewrinclode and grame, hira stenc genōg tō stingenne þā ēagan. Þās piperas ne sind līþe. Hīe sind þæt gemet þe man mid carfulre handa tō tagine giefeþ, se tōdāl betwēonan mēle þe wearmþ and mēle þe bærnþ. Se cēapmann sægþ þē þæt ælc cōc þone cost cūþe: tō fela, and se mete biþ forspilled, tō lȳt, and se disc is flēam. Þā piperas gemyndgiaþ tīd þonne wægnfaru þā Sāharan oferfōron and mā þonne andweorc bǣron. Hīe bǣron warnunga and receptas, spell āwriten on hætan. Cōc rǣcþ tō þām pilestocce, cicentōl hefig and gehroren, and grint handful þāra pipera, and ālīeseþ hira mægen. Se mortere wierþ weofod þǣr emnet biþ geþingod, nā gewēned.
On burgum of lāme and stāne getimbrodum blīciaþ þā hrōf under setlendre sunnan. Hēr flēogaþ ealde cumbol, āblācen ac unābogen, on winde. Þās cumbol habbaþ gesewen þēawas, hleapas, and tīda þonne menigu tōgædere þrungon tō freolsum oþþe tō wiþerwearde, þonne sēo lyft wæs þicce mid ēgþer ge hyhte ge eorre. Clāþ biþ āsywod and geblēod, ontȳned on þām dæge þonne nīwe tīd onginnþ, ac se blēo slīdeþ on handa and wunaþ manige dagas, smita þe ne wile āþwean. On þām hēahlondum beraþ hyrdas sculdorhrægl fæste gewefen, wiþstandende ēgþer ge rēne ge līge, wīsdōm on þām fæce hira webbes of handa tō handa giefen.
On þǣre drȳgan tīde cracaþ sēo eorþe, and se wind bereþ dūst. Wildfȳr onginnaþ æt ecge feldes ungegīemedes, spearce āworpen būtan gīemene. Þā līgas iernaþ, fretende sceacga and forgietene hegas, gemearcode ān be stāne oþþe færlīcre wendunge windes. Þǣr is frēcennes and nēodþearf on þissum blisteriendan wedere. Hit clǣnsaþ þæt þe dēad is, ac hit mæg niman þæt libbende gemynd stōwe gif hit ungeheald wunaþ. Þunorwolcnu gaderiaþ on þām heofonriman, and behātaþ emnet þe sceal hraþe eft cuman.
Tō tēonne of þissum þingum tōdæg: brec apulder openne, and rīm þā sǣd ǣr þū ete, tō gemynde þæt man onginne mid willan. Dō ānne hātne piper on þīnne mete, grind hine be handa, and swæcce swā þū gǣst. Hōh ealde freolssweotole ofer þīnum bēode, and gemyne hwīla blisse þe stormum folgodon. Gif þū gesiehst feld oþþe wyrtūn þe gīemene þearf, gīem hine līþe, and geheald hine ēgþer ge fram forgietennesse ge fram efestunge.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Rēadgeolu.
Lucky Color: OrangeRed — #FF4500Þæt sǣd, se wyrtcræft, and sēo glēd, ælc bitt gīemene, nǣfre ungyme.