Þæs Dēofles cartan īsenracenteag, ofermǣte and sweotol, sitt nū lēase ymbe þā sweoran. Gewēnede hyrnas, gemynd þæcellēohtes and cōles stānes, þyncaþ feorran þonne gewunelīce. Se rūm is stillu, se lyft unāstyred. Þæt þe þæt mōd on stōwe healdeþ is læs sōþ feter þonne gewunelīc gebǣr, cūþ hring mid edlǣce smēþe gewered. Sume weorþaþ swā gewunode þǣm hefe þæt, þonne hē ofslīt, hīe sittan forþ swā gebundene, fingras īdele traciende þǣr þæt metel ǣr on hȳd þrāng.
On nihtcēapstōwum Middelasie, under gewefenum þecum, stæccaþ hunigæceras heora waru on hēapum blāces, þurhsīenes wæstmes. Þā hunigdēawæpplas sind hefige, heora hȳd þynne rind ofer wæterfullre heortan. Cīepan snīþaþ ānne openne and, mid wīdum flātum seaxe, bēodaþ mōnan cōles flǣsces forþgāngendum cildum. Sēo swētnes is swā smǣle þæt hēo mǣst gemynd þyncþ, se smæcc self līþe ac wuniende. Þās wæstmas wrixlaþ handa hrædlīce on dægrēd, þonne ecg þæs wēstenes gȳt mid dēawe slicu is, and þā windlas fyllon mid sinum, smēþum hīwum þe mihton bēon on bōge þæs mōnan gehealden.
On ealdum wudum, hēah on þǣm trēowþecce, gaderaþ ōþeru swētnes. Lēaflȳs þȳrliaþ þā lēaf and, on heora lāste, forlǣtaþ dropan glisnendes swētsēawes. Ǣmettan heapmǣlum sittaþ ymbe þās dropan, þā lēaflȳs hirdende, of him þone wǣtan melcende þe of lēafe tō eorþan tēah swā clibbor gifu. Hierdas, heora bēocelfas of felde tō wuda feriende, āhebbaþ heora ēagan þider þe bēon þisne dēaw gaderiaþ, hunig wyrcende þe furhwan and pīn stincþ, menigfeald, lēoht on tungan, mǣst ungēomrlic. Lange ǣr sōhton bēowyrhtan bōgas mid þissum andfenge slicu, witende þæt se betsta rīp cymþ on mistigum morgenum þonne sēo woruld stillu is and þā trēowu mid ungesewenre gife scīmaþ.
On hīrede is ōþeru ǣw: þone morgenes wæstm tō snīþenne, þā mōnan on glæsmereum lāmfate tō settanne, þā offrunge tō morgenmetes bēode tō berenne þǣr þæt ēagþyrl open is tō þæs dæges ǣrestan blǣde. Se bēodclāþ is þynne, smǣle gewefen, wēnunge mid gelīcnedum wīngerddum gesīwod. Se cōl þæs hunigdēawæpples sīhp on þā fingras, man gemyndigende slāwra dægrēda and þæs swīges ǣr ǣrend onginnaþ. Hwīlum, on seldum, wætum dagum, gaderaþ dēaw wiþ innan glæses þe nihtlang on þǣre sylle wæs forlǣten. Þis is þæs lyftes āgen rīp, gefangen and scortlīce gehealden ǣr þonne sunnanlēoht hit āweg āhefeþ.
Þæt weder þe swylce gifa bringþ nis storm nā wæfersīen ac swīge, ǣre tīda þonne se heofon ādīmmud is, se grund hnesce, and sēo woruld þyncþ nīwe ālīesed. On beorgum būtan Þessalie lǣdaþ hierdas heora heorda þurh gæs þe gȳt wæt is of þǣre nihte orþe. Ān ābīdeþ tō þrȳccenne ecg gærses betwux tōþum and tō onbyrgenne þā cōlan swētnesse þe æfter wæs forlǣten. Þis sind morgenas nā drāmas, ac ālīesednesse, līþre undōnunge, giestrandæges racenteaga on mēose forgietene licgende.
Tōdæg mæg ān hunigdēawæppel of cēapstōwe hām bringan, hine openne snīþan swā se cīepa dyde, and þone wæstm slāwe onbyrgan, āna on þǣre stilnesse. Ōþer mæg disc wæstmes mid nīwre mintan strēawian, hine tō gefēran on þǣm nēahstan rūme berende, ānfeald and unglenged. Þridda mæg on dægrēd ābīdan, bærum fōtum ūt stæppende tō gefrēdenne þone dēaw on þǣm gærse, þā wǣte betwux tāum gaderian lǣtende, þone līchaman gemyndigende þæt þæs dæges hæftnīeda gȳt ungedēmede sind.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Huniggrēne.
Lucky Color: HoneyDew — #F0FFF0Sēo swētnes is nēah, and racenteaga slāciaþ on þǣm mildestan morgenum.