Se cynestōl stent on middan þǣre healle, his hiw ungēap, gegræfen and gepolod, mid wærmþe rīcendes handa ungehrinen. Þā cumbol ne sind feallene, ac hīe ȳþiaþ on blǣde, þā dēopan mearca ætīewende þǣr sunnanlēoht heora ecga ādīmmode. Cynegyrd, ǣr tācn bebodes, hlinaþ on þǣm earme, dūst gaderiende, his brād smēþe gewered mid ealdum dōmum and mid anrǣdnesse tīde. Þis is rūm mid gewunan tōgædere gehealden, ǣwa rīcedōmes forþgāngende on ǣmtigum edlǣcum. Þæs Cāseres stōw is ǣmtig, ac se bēod is mid gerīmbōcum gestæct, sēo flōr clǣne geswōpen, þā fōtlāstas gemetene and cūþe.
Ūte strecþ þǣre ceastre hrōfas on nīþerlīcum emnrǣwum, heora scindlas mid tīengum geara rēnes and mid geþyldigre setlunge sōtes of feorrum geweorce ādīmmode. Se stāngebrædda weg lǣdeþ riht of þǣm stillum cleofum tō openum middan, þǣr īsenrælas on endebyrdnessa wrīþaþ, heora scearpnes mid unārīmedum tīdum ādēafod. On ǣrmorgene hōfeþ mist ofer feldas ān begeondan þǣm endemestum ūtgetimbrum, tō þynne tō hȳdenne þā furh, ac genōg tō smītenne þone rīm, þæt gemǣre betwux eorþan and heofone līþigende. On dagum þonne se rēn on smǣlum, fæstum līnum fealþ, yrnaþ flānhrof slicu, wæterþēote under fæstum þrȳste hrætlende, wæter his stōwe sēcende on slāwum ymbhwearfte worulde.
On wyrcstōwe sitt se anfilt on his middan, micel and wuniende. Hē bīdeþ eftcymes handa, ritmes weorces. Smītu ealdra fȳra wuniaþ on brāde bærmclāþes and on sceancan hearmes þe tō reste forlǣten is. Se blæstbelg, ǣr mid līce geþrungen, styreþ nū ān mid winde þe þurh lēas timber þǣre dura in slīt. Nis nān cling, nān spearce, ān gemynd endebyrdnesse of wōrunge tō scieppenne, þinga tō fæstum regole tō scieppenne. Ēac sēo gerīmbōc, open on nīþerlīcum bēame underwreþed, ne wrīt nū nāht būtan feorm, rǣw tōla and heora endemestena bōta.
On wyrtūne behindan þǣm hūse þringaþ flāhstānas on mēos, ǣlc stān gerīm færeldes, gemǣre betwux begāenum rōsebuscum and þǣm dǣle þǣr þistlas untame weaxaþ. Hēr, under þǣm hege, ligeþ crāwan feþer, æfter geflite ufan forlǣten. Hēo is on bleoh ealdes īsenes, þāra stāna þe fȳrpitt ymbhringiaþ. Bōg īwes, gewriden and hefig mid ylde, mearcaþ ecge þæs landes. Hē hæfþ manige wintras gesewen, his rinde mid clāwum nȳtena gesniden þe scead sōhton.
Se landscipe ne forlǣt nǣfre his endebyrdnesse, ac hē ne andswaraþ leng gesihþe. Þā beorgas begeondan þǣm tūne settaþ heora sceadwa wiþ þā feldas, heora ymbhwyrftas hearde ac ādīmmode on lætnum æfternōne. On þǣm hēahstan hrycge standaþ hegas riht þēah se blēoht lange āweg is, bord mid gewunan and mid gemynde mearca tōgædere gehæfde.
Mann mæg mæstlinghandfæst bēodcyste on stillum rūme polian, þā styrunge hire āgen ende weorþan lǣtende. Hē mæg his tōl oþþe bēc on fulfremedre endebyrdnesse rīman, nā tō brūcenne, ac tō healdenne þone endebyrdnes gehālnne. Hē mæg þone bæcþecc on dægrēd swāpan, þǣm ilcan endebyrdnesse slege ǣlces morgenes fylgende, oþþe stilne wiþ ǣmtigum stōle sittan, hiw æfwæardnesse ārwurþiende.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dimgræg.
Lucky Color: DimGray — #696969Ēac ǣmtige hīw healdon heora āgene strengþe, and regol wuniaþ þonne nāht elles wunaþ.