Ān wer hangþ hēafod niþer, and his fōt is gebunden tō cwicum lime libbendes trēowes, wyrttruman dēope and bōgum tō heofone. Sēo woruld ymbe hine is stil, and hēo hielt hire ǣþm. Þæt trēow nis eald and dēad, ac hit rǣceþ, and sēaw beateþ on him, and nǣdla and lēaf sind þicce ofer hēafde. On þǣre stilnesse berþ lȳtel wind þone stenc trēowtearo, eorþan, and wǣtes rinde. Þǣr is andgiet þæt sēo tīd is slāw geworden, nā ācwenct, and se lēohtbēag ymbe þæs weres hēafod tācnaþ ōþer cynn gewittes. Se wudu wacaþ, swīgende and andweard, þā hwīle þe hē forlǣt his gewunelican gesihþe for ōþerre.
On ealdum spellum sind wudas stōwa restes and costnunge. Man forlīest þone pæþ, and þā trēowu gāþ tōgædere, ac on þǣre swīge hwierfþ sum þing. Þā bōgas ufan wyrcaþ healle swā cirice, sweras hīerra þonne ǣnig gebyld, and se flor is hnesce mid mēose and pīnnǣdlum. On heortan ealdra wuda stōdon wegfarende tō gehīeranne, and tō anbīdenne andsware þe ne cōme, būton man lēt þā worulde ymbhwyrfan. Norþland mearciaþ heora gemǣru mid swilcum wudum, þǣr mistas clifiaþ on þām stoccum æt ǣrdæge, and sēo woruld þyncþ yldra þonne þā word þe hīe nemnaþ.
Nis hit āna se wilda þe þās stilnesse healdeþ. On þǣre cycene is se snīdebord bewrigen mid corfenum wyrtum, lēafum of telgan ātogenum. Se lyft fyllþ mid stence dile, petersilien, oþþe tarragōnes, and se smæcc is scearp and cōl on þǣre tungan. Briw wielþ, and se cōc stent mid þām hlædele gearwe, and lǣt þone rēc rīsan and ymbwindan, and anbīdeþ þǣre rihtan tīde tō āsettanne þone handfull lēafa. Hēr, on þǣre hāmlīcan anbīdunge, wierþ sēo woruld stil. Honda magon restan on þām trēowbēode, and fingras dragan þā strīcan, and þæt mōd biþ gestilled mid þām þe man gearwaþ mete of wyrtūne oþþe of cēapstōwe.
Elles hēawaþ wuduwyrhtan on norþe timber of dēopum wudum, and hēapiaþ hit fægre be heora cotum. Þæt trēowtearo þe of ferscum stoccum sīhþ is clibbor, and hielt fæste swā þā endemestan tīda ǣr man forlǣte. Þonne sēo sunne gǣþ tō setle, þonne ǣþmaþ se wudu ūt, and þā wyrhtan stondaþ, æxa and saga ālegede. Þæt weorc is āhafen, and āne hwīle is sēo swīge under þām pīntrēowum full.
Regn færþ þurh swilce wudas, and fielþ on līþum scēatum. Se swēg is āsmored, and hē fielþ on nǣdla and lēaf. Wegfarende findaþ scyld under þām bōgum, regnhrægl glisniende mid dropum wæteres, and hēahscōs cōliaþ on þām fænne. Hwīlum, on þǣre swīge, lōciaþ hīe ūp þurh þone lēafhrōf, and wendaþ heora gesihþe hēafod niþer, and geseoþ þā worulde tōbrocene þurh þūsendu bifigendra dropa. On þissere scortan stilnesse wierþ se dōm sweotol, hwæþer man scule forþ gān oþþe anbīdan.
Tōdæg meaht þū hrīnan þissum lyfte, gif þū stentst under trēowe and lǣtst þone wind plegian ofer þā hȳd, oþþe gif þū healdst telgan ferscre wyrte tō þǣre nosan and ǣþmast inn. Anbīdung on wuda, sōþum oþþe geþōhtum, mæg wendan þæs mōdes rihtung, and metegearwung mid handfulle lēafa of þām wyrtūne mæg gelaþian geþyld. Ēac gif þū sitst stille, and dragast þā hringas ealdes trēowbēodes, þonne setlaþ þā giefa þæs wudu, and se wīsdōm þǣre stilnesse, on þǣre heortan.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Wudugrēne.
Lucky Color: ForestGreen — #228B22Stilnes bringþ nīwe gesihþe.