Betwux þām twām stillum swērum Sēo Abbodesse wunaþ, hire andweardnes mearciende gemǣre betwux þām þe gesewen is and þām þe bediglod is. Se wǣfels æfter hire is þearle getogen, swā tō beorgene þā dēagolnessa þe restaþ lȳtlum būtan rǣce. On hire sceate gewritrolle wunaþ belocen, þæt gewrit bediglod. Niþer þæt wæter is unstyriende, scīnende ān þā þe dearron mid stillum heortum and æmtigum handum genealǣcan. Stilnes hire hiredes nis æmtignes, ac fulnes dēagolnessa, sēo stilnes ǣr onwrigenesse. Hēr smalu stenc drīgra leafa and se feorra swēg droppendes wæteres dōþ þæt sēo woruld ābīden þyncþ, gebriwen on ābīde.
Lange ǣr blæc bōcfell gemētte, wǣron ōþre wegas tō healdene dēagolnessa. On weligum ēadenum and on stæpeldfeldum menn būgon tō gaderienne wyrta mid wæxigum leafum, oft forgiten fram ofstedum ēagan. Þās leaf, þonne hīe wǣron gebrȳsede and gebēþode, ālēton wundorlīcne stenc, eorþlīcne and scearpne. Tūngerēfan and dēagwyrhtan, gelǣrede on geþylde, begēmon micel fat þǣr se gearwung wæs slaw and carful. Hīe þā wendunge mid stillre blisse sceawodon, witende þæt se drēam ontȳnde ūt of gesihþe, under brerde þæs wæteres. Se weg wæs bewæfed, gehealdan mid hīredum þe metsēþunga, þegnunga, and tīde of cneorisse tō cneorisse āgēafon. Þæt þe forþ cōm wǣron lange līnan clāþes, dēore nēah and feor, hira dēopnessa anda cēapmanna on þām windigum cēapwegum.
Þās gefremedan webb fundon weg on tempel and on cynehiredas. Þonne prēostas æfter þām wāgriftum stōpon tō rǣdfæstienne þone wītega, hira hrægl wǣron corfene of clāþe gebēþodum on wæstmum feorres rīpes. Gyrdel oþþe mentel mihte secgan færeld ofer beorgum and wēstenum, oþþe regniga æfterna āspende ābīdigende þā rihtan tīd tō tēonne clāþ of þām fate. On stillum hāmum lengu þisses clāþes mihte bēon bewunden ymbe dēore bōc, oþþe gebrocen swā heofon tō smēagunge, dæghwāmlīc gemynd þæs þe ligeþ būtan hlyne þǣre worulde.
Elles, on drēfigum cēapum be sǣ, cēapmenn of feorrum hæfenum woldon byndelas unhladan þearle and hefige bewundene. Se sealtlyft gemengde mid stence þǣre gehealdnan wyrte, scearp swā gemynd. Lǣcas hwīlum þā drīgan coddas grundon, mengende þæt dust mid wætere tō māligenne bletsunga on durum oþþe tō dēagenne þegnungrīs. On symbeldagum se ilca wos mihte bēon āstenced on wæterbollum, his stenc ārīsende mid morgenmiste. On sumum landum naman tūna, bīegas ēa, and leaf hīredbōca āwrition þā micelnesse þæs gēarlīcan rīpes and þā langan mōnaþas geþyldiges ābīdes ǣr þā fat hira bedigloda māþþum āgēafon.
Ēac se heofon hæfþ gemynd dēagolnesse þǣre Abbodessan. Þā tīda ǣr sumerþunorstorme, þonne þā wolcnu gaderiaþ and se wind ceald wendeþ, gefēlaþ gehefegode mid ābīde. On swilcum dagum sēo woruld þyncþ swā hēo hire orþung healde, swā ābīdigende tācn of būtan þām wǣfelse, tācn þæt þæt þe bediglod is biþ onwrigen, ac ān þonne tīd and stilnes sind geweorþode.
Tōdæg þū meaht pott tē gearwian of drīgum blōstmum ǣr gebrocenum on dēagunge, and lǣtan þone stīm hnescce on morgen wrīþan. Þū meaht wel gewefenne scēat ofer þīnum sculdrum hōn, træcende mid fingre mynet feorra hylla and ēa. Blōstman þryccan betwux leafum dēorre bōce, oþþe ābīdan tō hlystenne þā stilnesse ǣr storme, bringeþ þē nēar andweardnesse þæs þe ungesprecen is, and gemanþ þē fægernesse on healdene sume þing dēagol nū.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Wād.
Lucky Color: Indigo — #4B0082Sēo dēagolnes healdeþ, and sēo andswaru abideþ on hire tīde.