Þonne Se Hangenda ætīewþ hēafod niþer, þonne þyncþ sēo woruld tēon æt his anclēowum, and biddan styrenesse þonne nān ne is mihtiglīc. Hē hangþ ofer ēaōfre, āhafen of gewridenum wyrttrumum trēowes, and se ryne neoþan rǣsþ forþ þēah hē wunaþ hæft. His woruld nis forlǣtennes, ac wiþsæcung. Se līchama wile flēon, and þēah healdaþ þā bōgas fæste, and sēo ēa under him wiþsæcþ tō anbīdenne hire fære tō sǣ. On þisse āhafenan tīde flīehþ þæt mōd, unwillende tō restenne on his nīwan stede, winnende wiþ þā swīge þe cymþ ǣr sōþre styrenesse. Feorr gaderaþ storm, se lyft nēah and hefig, and behāt heofon būtan steorrum.
Swilc weder līþ on feldum and lanum. Þunorwolcnu hēapiaþ wiþ þone orh, and ādwǣscaþ feorre hlīþ. Þā wolcnu timbraþ hīe selfe tō weallum, heardum and unbīegendlicum, and se wind swelt ǣr heora cyme. On þisse anbīdunge belūcaþ erendas heora duru and ēagþyrel, and wegfarende sēcaþ scyld under nīedum stānbrycgum. Standende æt þām þerscwolde wacaþ man þā worulde dwīnan. Trēowu weorþaþ sceaduhīw, and se cūþa pæþ tōwint on nāht, woruld ādlēogod fram nēalǣce þæs stormes wāge.
Stǣr wrīt niht þā þǣre byrig lēohtfatu feallon and þā strǣta wǣron gefyllede mid swīge, ābrocen āna fram clace ofestigra fōta. Men belucon heora hlid and drōgon þicce wāghrægl, and belucon hīe on rūmas þe swulgon þā endemestan lāstas æfenglōman. Þǣr gaderiaþ tōl weorces and restes, īsenna cytel, besmiten mid gēarum brūces, hine selfne wearmiende ofer glēdum, stānmortere, hefig on þǣre handflore, þryccende wyrta tō melwe, strica fellclāþes geweorpen ofer hrycg cycenstoles, anbīdende handa tō smēþienne hine tō hīwe. On cystum gemyngaþ licoriswyrt and þā unbīegendan scilla hirstedra sǣda þā tungan stīþnesse and þurhwununge.
Begeondan þissum weallum licgaþ fȳrbeorga feldas īdele under hefignesse cōliendre æsce. Hēr slāpaþ sǣd tīda, belocene on clyppe þǣre eorþan, anbīdende þǣre hwīle þe regn and sunne hīe findaþ. Wegfarende þe gāþ þurh þās land sprecaþ be scearpum sceardum sweartes fȳrglæses under fōtum, scearpum bītum of ealdum tīdum, gemynd þæt gesceaft fylgþ oft tōbrocenesse. On morgene gaderiaþ crāwan þǣr sēo eorþe is bær, heora fiþeru snīdende bogan ofer þām stillan landscip. Hīe sind ātogene tō þām þe is gehȳded, tō þām þe anbīdeþ under þām brerde his tīde tō rīsenne.
Þǣr sind hwīla on spellum þonne hæleþas sculon ofdūfan, on scræf, on þā nīþerworuld, on þā ungewissena swīge æfter slege. Heora fara biddaþ geþyld and willan tō gehīeranne. And þēah, on þisse ymbcerredan sīdan þǣre carte, is sēo lār forsacen. Se ofdūfung wierþ tō cwearterne, sēo swīge tō wīte. Hit is wræcsīþ þe weaxeþ hefigra mid ǣlcum fande tō tōbrecenne. Sēo woruld giefþ nǣnne weg forþ, āna costnunge anbīdunge, and þone ege þe cymþ mid þām þe man nāt hwæt sēo anbīdung sceal giefan.
Tōdæg meaht þū belūcan þā hlid ǣr se storm cume, and healdan þā gaderiendan swīge ūte āne hwīle. Þū meaht dragan handflore ofer brerd þæs ealdan cyteles, and felan þā hǣtu þe wunaþ lange æfter þām þe þæt fȳr is ābærned. Geþenc tō grindenne wyrttruman and sǣd mid handa, and lǣtan þā fæstan hefignes lǣran þīnum geþōhtum þā geþyld þe sēo woruld biddeþ. Oþþe sit ānlīce stille, and gehīer feorrne þunor, and lǣt þē restan on þām wite þæt sume anbīdunga sind lange, ac nā būtan andgiete.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blæc.
Lucky Color: Black — #000000Stilnes hæfþ hire āgen dēop hīw.