Þæs Drȳs bēod is gelegd mid his fēower ealdum tōlum: þǣre ecge, þām calice, þām mynete, þām stæfe. On rihtre worulde bīegþ ǣlc tōl tō his þearfe, tō snīþenne þurh, tō healdanne, tō grundweallienne, tō lǣdenne. Ac nū is se bēod ungestille, þā ealdan brūcas gewrixlede, ǣlc þing wiþsacende his gesettan andgiete. Sēo ecg wierþ nā tōdǣlend ac scēawere, lāf smīces, swā ecg ǣr getogen of mistbewrogenum stāne ac nū ādimmod, restende on handum þæs lotwrences. Se calic, ǣr tō wīne oþþe tō wætere, sitt ymbhwyrfed and īdel, edlǣcende þā stillan stānwellas forworhtnra abbodrīca on mōrum, heora heortan āholode þurh tīde and rēn.
Heofon hangþ bufan, nēah and unhīwe swā undersīde wintres wolcnes. Be ēaofre līniaþ stānas gebrocene þurh gēarhund fōtstapa þone weg tō nāhwǣr gewissum. Fiscera nett sind āworpen ofer bāte getogenum feorr ūp þone moldewaroþ, heora cnottan fæste swā dīegolnessa, þæs dæges feng behȳded of gesihþe. On stillum lanum ealdra tūna āþolaþ stānwyrhtena handgeweorc: oferslagas, stæpas, and morter healdende fæste. Þās getimbru ne scīnaþ ne clipiaþ. Hīe underfōþ, and gemengaþ ungewisnesse mid āþolunge, and tǣcaþ þæt hwīlum is þæt betste galdor āþolung and geþyld tō āþolienne þæt þe cymþ.
Þæs Drȳs hrægl, bewunden on sceade, gelīcaþ þǣre wulle þe ǣr scrȳdde hyrdas fylgende ēowdum ofer ūplandum on miste. Swilc clāþ, gesponnen tō strengþe, bewint þone līchaman wiþ þām unfæstan cyle þe slincþ of Norþsǣ. On cotlifum sprecaþ heorþes acxan be warmþe nū āspendedre, ac gemynd līges wunaþ on hīwe þāra stāna. Ēac þisse worulde hlāf biþ gesciepen mid melu bestēddum ofer weorcbēodum, handum cnedendum sum fæst of þām unhīwan, hweorfung þe is ēac lot, lȳtlra þonne goldcræft ac nēar dæghwāmlīcre þearfe.
On sumum morgenum āwæcþ sēo burg tō miste swā þiccum þæt heahtimbru, cranas, and þǣre ēa brycga tōmeltaþ on ūtlīnan. Sēo woruld tōdrīfþ tō þām þe man hrīnan mæg: þām cōlan handfæce īsernes tēapottes, rēnwætere gaderiendum on bide æt dura, slatenum tigele on folman, rūhum ac fæstum. Hēr wierþ se bysen lot: færeld þurh gemynd, nā þurh gesihþ, gangende hand be cūþum wyrtūnwealle, getrīewende þām grunde under bōtum. Stǣr biþ gehealden on gerǣdbōcum, heora trametas brōsne and stille, blæc ādroren, līnan sprecende be fornum cēapum, scyldum, and gerīmum. Tīd gǣþ þurh rādstaþol getimbrode of gedelfenum stāne, ǣlc anbīdungrūm gefylled mid stilnesse wegfarenda, heora orþ gemengd mid smīce cræfta gewītendra intō feorne and miste.
Tōdæg mæg mann cnedan dāh on cōlum stānenum bēode, and gefēlan fæstnesse eorþan under handum. Hē mæg gān þone gebrocan weg be bricgwealle on ǣrmorgene, and hlystan oþ sēo woruld hīe self clǣnsige mid ǣlcum stæpe. Sit on stæpe gewederodes getimbres and gehȳr þā racan on stānum. Glēme ealdne īserenne cǣg, and læt his hefignesse mynegian loca ǣgþer ontȳnedra and belocenra. Þā tōl sind æt handa, and heora brūcas hweorfaþ. Þæt þe āþolaþ is sēo dǣd forþganges, ēac þonne se weg biþ behȳded.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Græg.
Lucky Color: Gray — #808080Þonne sēo woruld wrixlaþ clǣnnesse wiþ stilnesse, getrīewe þām stāne under þīnum fōtum, for þæt þe āþolaþ is genōg.