Þæs drȳs bēod bīdeþ on stillre unendebyrdnesse. Se gierd is gelegd þǣr se calic sceolde bēon, se mynet resteþ bufan ecge, and þā tōl wrixliaþ heora weorc swā hīe sīen genīedede þurh stillne plegere on sceadwum. Þæs drȳs slīefan sind īdele, ac sēo lār wunaþ: þæt þe ǣr wæs cræft is nū handplega, and sēo smale līne blinnþ betwēonan ealdordōme and dwimre. Ūte is sēo lyft hefig, se lata æftern gefangen betwēonan forgāngendum storme and þǣre warmþe þe wunaþ of wīngerdes sunnan. Wīngebōgas, gewrīþene mid ylde, gripaþ þæt hlīþ, heora wæstm læft tō dēopienne and tō þiccienne þurh lange, hāte ǣfenas.
On myþe nis ǣlc hweorfung beorht. On hlīþum þǣr þā ealdan wīnpressan hlīniaþ wiþ tōbrocenum weallum restaþ bydenu, bewrogene on stence fermentunge and dīegolnessa. Þā bydenu healdaþ racu wæstma þryccedra of lates sumeres genihte, fella and stela ābēgende nā tō drence ānum, ac tō blecenne hȳd, weolas, and gemynd. Cēapmann on burges ceapstōwe clipaþ ofer hēapum cirisbeāma, heora glæsigum fellum behātende scearpnesse þe stingþ ǣr hēo frēfre. Hē selþ hīe be handfullum, geblecede fingras mearciende mynetu, swā þæt þæt þe biþ geboht and gesald nǣfre fullīce is þæt þe hit þyncþ. Sēo woruld bæftan wāge is geworht of wrixlungum: gangstæf underþēodeþ gebrocenne wegfarend on dæge, and siþþan healt openne hedernduru tō dīeglum gemōtum on nihte.
Hīreda gemunaþ þās hweorfunga on smalum wīsum. On cycene wyll crocc, gefylled mid bētwyrtrum þe ālīesaþ heora blēo on wæter and on þæs cōces handa. Eald feluwetes hrægl, gehæled of cyste on hēahflōre, biþ genīeded tō þegnunga swā bēodwrigels, rīce mid gemynde frēolsa and hlēapa nū ādrorenra tō racum. Bottlas þe ǣr heoldon þā betstan pressunga bēon eft gebrohte tō weorce, on rǣwe gesette nēah fȳre tō healdanne ele, drȳge blōstman, oþþe behȳded ǣrend. Ēac þā rōsan on wyrtūne, blēdum deorcum and grēnum, bēon gegaderode and gedrēode betwēonan hefigum bōcum tō gemyndþingum, heora blēo dēopiende mid ǣlcum forgāngendum mōnþe.
Weder dēþ ēac his dǣl on þissum cræfte. Nēah ēa gaderaþ rēn spēd and mægen, and cnyssaþ þā tigelhrōf and sent cyle þurh ēagþȳrelfella. Se wolcnhrof swelþ, hrof behātes and warnunge, swā sēo eorþe drincþ þæt þe fealþ. Þæs wīngerdes molde hnescaþ, sēo lyft þicce mid stence mēoses, wǣtes stānes, and þæs endenextan rīpendes wæstmes. Se storm hwirfþ þæt cūþe land uncuþ, and tēah ūt welan on ǣlcere sceade and on ǣlcum cīnan, wrixlende clǣnnesse wiþ dēopnesse.
Þū meaht cēosan tō ūtanimanne stānas cirisbeāma ofer þām wæterfæte, and sceawian þone wōs gaderian, and geþencan sumeres geniht. Þū meaht brūcan ealdre bottle tō nīwre þearfe, and fyllan hīe mid lēohtfatele and settan hīe þǣr þæt lēoht mǣst biþ þearf. Þū meaht hebban dǣl feluwetes of drawan and smēþian hine ofer þīnre scēate, and gemunan lange āweges sang and hleahtor. Oþþe, æfter rēne, meaht þū gān þurh wyrtūn, and gaderian feallene blēda swā smale tācn þæs dæges uncuþes gelimpes.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Deorc rēad.
Lucky Color: DarkRed — #8B0000Læt þisse worulde hweorfunga ætīewan heora stillan giefa, for þæt þe ǣr wæs behȳded bīdeþ nū on openre gesihþe, gehwirfed.