Gemaca hefigra fetera sitt on þǣm bēode, cōl wiþ þæt trēow, heora locas opene and þǣm hrōfe andweard. Hīe licgaþ þǣr nū dagas, dimm metel dūst gaderiende. Se rūm is stillu būtan þǣm lǣsestan hwisprunge blǣdes þe þurh þæt cycenēagþyrl in slīt, berende mid him stenc hwætes þe wild begeondan þone þerscwold wexeþ. On þǣre onwendan cartan ne sind þā racenteaga āweg, ac heora byrþen is gewend. Þæt þe ǣr band glengeþ nū, and þæt þe ǣr ege dyde dēfeþ nū.
Ūte þrȳccaþ mintelēaf ūp þurh cinum on ealdum stānwege, anrǣde and ungelāþode ac þēah þēonde. Gearum ǣr begēat ealdmōdor wyrtūn his rǣwa carefullīce, twigu on dāh tō swētum hlāfe þrēcende, hīe tō morgenlāce gemengende, cyfas of ræftrum tō drūgienne on cycenlyfte āhōn lǣtende. Nū is se wyrtūn mǣst oferwexen, ac sēo minte wunaþ, nīþerlīc, crēopende andweardnes, uncūþ on hire anrǣdnesse, and hire stenc ǣlcum þe forþgǣþ bēodende. Ēaþe is hīe forgietan, swīþost þonne man gewunod is tō forgietenne þæt þe of cinum rīseþ, ac on stillum tīdum ne mæg man hire andweardnesse onsācan.
On meteclyfan healdeþ lāmfæt rēam, of morgenes meoluce geþiccod. Hit resteþ on cōlum bēame, gemynd ealdes cēapes þonne butere and cīese mid handum wǣron geworht, and rēam wæs onsundran gesett tō seldum tīdum. Gewuna is, unēaþe gemunod, þisne rēam mid þǣre lǣstan handfulle toslitendra mintelēafa tō geondgēotenne: geþyldig hrēring, ābīdung, wēnung þæt bitternes þæs lēafes tō hwæte mildran gā, ecg ofgenumen. Þis nis racenteag hungores oþþe ofergyldes, ac wendung þæs gemǣnan tō hwæte stilne mǣre, tācn þæt ālīesednes þurh līþnesse mægenlic is, and þæt þā ealdan wegas ne þurfon fetera weorþan.
Weder on þissum ǣran tīdum is wǣge mistes þe ealle þing þe hē gehrīnþ līþeþ, þone orcgeard on wǣge wrēonde and swēg dēafiende. Se mist is geþyldig, ān ofer orcgeardgærs wuniende and on þæt opene ēagþyrl drīfende. Hē is laþung tō ābīdenne, tō ongietenne þæt þe man gewunelīce unmǣre hætt: se slāwa hwearft orþes, se edlǣc feorres cūbelle, sēo stilla anrǣdnes þinga forlǣtenra. On swylcum wedere mihte man ūt stæppan and mǣst gelȳfan þæt sēo woruld nīwe geworht sīe, þæt þā racenteaga of þǣm handwyrstum eallunga slīdan mihton gif se willa þǣr wære.
Se ealda līnclāþ, mid lȳtlum stelum and lēafum on carum sticum gesīwod, sitt gefealden on þǣm bēode wiþ þǣm ǣmtigum feterum. Hē is ā þǣr æt morgenmete, dropan rēames and dweliende cruman of þǣm hlāfe fōnde. Se līnclāþ is on stōwum þynne gewered ac healdeþ stenc mintan and meluwes of gearum brūces, clāþgemynd handa þe on þissum hūse worhton and reston. Lȳtel þing is hit, ac tō ontȳnne þone līnclāþ and hine ofer scēat tō smēþenne is tō dōnne ǣw ālīesednesse, tō onfōnne þæt þe ǣgþer byrþen and gleng is, and tō cēosenne, þēah hit sīe ānne dæg, frēodōm on ānfealdnesse.
Tōdæg mæg man twīg mintan of þǣm wege gaderian and hit betwux þæs līnes fealdum þrȳccan, oþþe spōnfulne geondgotenes rēames on morgenne cofe hrēran, gemynd wyrtūna ǣr laþiende. Mann mæg ūt on þone mist stæppan, hine on þā brū settan lǣtende, līþe ādilegode giestrandæges benda, oþþe ān on þǣre stilnesse sittan, handa on þǣm bēode restende, þone hefe fetera gefrēdende þe nā leng belocene sind.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Grēnhwīt.
Lucky Color: MintCream — #F5FFFAÞā racenteaga magon bēon āsette, þēah hit sīe ānne morgen.