Ān wer hangþ āhafen, hēafod niþer, of cwicum trēowe. His ān scanca bīegþ, se ōþer is riht, earmas behindan his hrycge, and se wlita on his ansīene is smylte. Hring blāces lēohtes ymbhringþ his hēafod. Sēo woruld hweorfeþ, ac hē ne wiþstent. On þām lyfte ymbe hine is sēo swīge ǣr sumeres storme, sēo swīge þonne regn is tō cumenne of feorre sǣ. Ealde sǣlidan seglodon ǣr tō behāte swilces regnes, and wācodon him ofer þā Wendelsǣ, þǣr orh and heofon samod gāþ, and se lyft smæcþ lēaslīce sealtes and cumendre ferscnesse. Hīe lēton heora segl niþer and drifon, and anbīdedon þæt sēo hweorfung hīe gerǣhte, sēo hwīl stilnesse ǣr eall styrenes eft onginnþ.
On Rōmāniscum wyrtūnum sceān stil pōl þone heofon, ymbhringed mid swerum and brādum lēafum lilia. Gif man stōd be þissum wætere, mihte hē geseon þā worulde hēafod niþer on þām spæglendan brerde. Sēo tīd self þūhte slāw āne hwīle, and hǣtu þǣre sunnan anbīdde. Se pōl wæs gefēded mid regnwætere, hwīlum gegaderod on fatum of þām stormum þe of þām sǣrime cōmon, hwīlum mid handa ātogen of feorrum wellum. Cildru āsetton plegscipu hēr tō flēotenne and wācodon hīe drīfan, and leornodon geþyld on heora līþum ymbhweorfe. Se pōl wæs stōw tō þencenne, geheald betweox þām bisigan hūse and þām openum feldum, stōw þǣr nāht ne gewearþ and þēah sum cwic þing styrede under þām brerde.
Feorr, on þām Andesbeorgas, sind meras swā hēahe þæt hīe gaderiaþ þā wolcnu selfe. Se lyft is þynne and cōl, and mist mæg wealcan ofer þæt wæter būtan warnunge. Lēode þǣr secgaþ spell be godum þe ǣr ēodon ofer þās wæteru, and lēton ȳþa þe nǣfre ne āswicon, swā sēo dǣd tō anbīdenne, tō standenne stille on þām brerde, hweorfte þone mere ā. Fisceras anbīdaþ æt þām strande þāra rihtena gewuna, þǣre hwīle þe wæter and wind findaþ emnet and man mæg þā nett weorpan. On sumum dagum clǣnsaþ se brerd swā fullīce þæt man cwiþ þæt þū mæge geseon hēahhrōf þæs heofones healdan þā worulde neoþan.
On feorrum monsūnum gaderiaþ tūnesmenn regn on ealdum lāmfatum, and healdaþ hit tō þwēale, tō bletsunge, oþþe tō gebrowenne. Þonne þā fatu sind fulle, þonne swǣt heora cōle brerd on þām wǣtan lyfte. Sēo dǣd tō anbīdenne þæs forman regnes þǣre tīde is dǣl gēarlīces þēawes. Þis wæter is dēorwierþe. Hit bringþ nīwe sǣd, nīwe līf. Man gēt hit ofer handa tō mearcienne anginn, oþþe ofer wyrttruman hāmwyrta tō trymmenne weaxþ. Þǣr is ār on þisse geþylde, and cynn forlǣtennesse tō slāwre cyme hweorfunge.
Æt hām fylþ sum man glæscrōcc of þǣre þīpan and sett hine on þone bēod. Hit is gelaþung tō anbīdenne and tō dǣlenne āne hwīle. Se crōcc is hefig, dropung formeþ on his sīdum, and sēo gēotung is slāw and rædfæst. On þǣre cycene sit swamm gearu tō clǣnsienne, gefylled mid wætere of þām wilian, and hnesceþ tō hrine. Þās lȳtlan tōl þēowiaþ þurh healdnesse and forlǣtennesse wæteres, þurh anbīdunge and þonne dǣde, and edwistiaþ þā māran ymbhweorfas regnes, meres, and sǣs.
Tōdæg meaht þū settan bollan fersces wæteres on þīnum ēagþyrle tō scortre smēagunge, oþþe dragan þīne hand þurh þone boll ǣr þū wyrt wæterie. Þū meaht anbīdan be openre wætersprynge, and gehīeran þā swīge þæs sprynges. On æfne mæg slāw, gīemenfull drync of sweotolum glæse þē helpan tō þencenne weorþ stilnesse ǣr nīwre styrenesse.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Wæterhæwen.
Lucky Color: Aqua — #00FFFFĀnre hwīle anbīdung tīehþ þone regn.