Æt ecge þæs weges āhefþ se geonga wōriend his scō, and nāt hwær hē fealle. On spellum and on fāgum cartum trūwaþ hē sunnlēohtum stānum and blisse þæs hundes, ac nū bewrīhþ oferlīht morgen þæt land. Se heofon is geculufod mid nīedum wolcnum þe rēn brēowaþ, and se lyft bereþ stilnesse hwætes ungesceawodes. His cnappsæcc is gelæpped and gebrocen, se clāþ ætīewende mearca manigra slācra resta on sōtbestōwenum stæpum and cealdum bānum fȳra tīde þe ǣr wæs. On his handa, gangstæf, hwīlum geglenged mid his geornfulnesse, nū ādimmod of ungefōresceawodum scræfum wiþ īsenenum brycgum and hrysigendum wænwgum.
Hē hlēapeþ be lāne þær sēo woruld biþ ymbwriten mid smyltre andweardnesse þæs þe wunaþ æfter þām þe beorhtnes āweg slīdeþ. Getimbru rīsaþ on ǣgþre healfe, heora stānandwlitan gestreagode mid tīdum ceasterrēces and mid geþyldigre hrīninge mistes. Duru sind ymbset mid wyrtcynnum þær sēo lawendel nēah āspend is, and sēo ān wyrt þe þēahþ is se ealda līcen, swīþende brerd forgietenra benca and brerdas rennūþa. Hleahtor þæs Wegfarendes, ā beorht, is nū wandigende, ādwǣsced mid cyn wedres þe yldunge tācnaþ, dropung þe nǣfre rēn ne weorþeþ, heofon þe nā clǣnsaþ ne wērig biþ.
On þām ealdan dǣle færeþ hē be þæs smiþes hūse, belocen þone dæg. Se anfilt æt þām þerscolde is ceald and stillu, his brerd healdende spell tōla gesceapenra on glēame heorþes and geornfulnesse. Þā hālstānas, slīce of miste giestrandæges, edlæcaþ under his fōtum mid hnescre sleoge. Þēah lōcaþ hē ūp, ātogen tō þām nearwum scēatpottum and sclatena hrōfum, ǣlc gelægd mid þǣre ilcan ceasterlāfe, ǣlc þoligende winter æfter wintra on stilnesse þurhwununge. Þær is bæcerhūs ymb þone hyrne, his ēagþȳrelu mid nīedum fȳrum bemistode. Hlāf þæs bæceres rest on bredum gehameres tines, gehyrsted and strang, bestōwen of melwe and of setlunge ascan þā hwīle þe þā ofnas æt æfenne cōliaþ.
Hē gefrēdeþ þā yldunge on þǣre worulde, swā se niehsta stæpe sceolde bēon gemeten, se grund gecunnod ǣr forþhlēape. On wyrtūne behindan cumhūse weaxeþ windung wiligwyrt be hēape stānbrīca, þā wyrt wefende þurh gatum þær morter āfeoll. Eorþæppla restaþ on hæran sæcce, āsette tō æfenmēle, gȳt gemearcode mid molde clīþigum of þām ytemestan rīpe. Ofer sitt culfre on þām wīre, fiþera forscrencede wiþ cōlre yste, bīdigende sumes ungesewenes tācnes tō styrenne.
Of þissum þingum leornaþ se wōriend stille wærcunge. Hē mæg hring on þām heorþstāne mid orde his scōs ātēon and him selfum behātan tō yldenne ǣr hē hlēape. Hē mihte his handa on þām tīnenum bæþe æt dæges ende dēfan, and lætan þæt wæter cōlian tō gemæccenne þone lyft, and hine selfne gemynegian þæt nā ǣlc tīma ofste clipaþ. Hē mihte þā āspendan lawendel of þām wyrtcynnum gaderian and hīe settan be his bedde, milde swæcc tō āweganne hine tō slǣpe ǣr ǣnigum færeld. Hē mihte sittan on þām stæpum þā hwīle þe se mist ūp āhefþ, spyrigende þā ealdan līnan sōtes mid his fingre, and hine selfne gemynegian þone grund tō leornienne ǣr hē forþ plege.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dimgræg.
Lucky Color: DimGray — #696969Yld ǣr þū ungewisne grund oferfare, and læt slāwe þing þīnne niehstan stæpe lǣdan.