Hē stent beforan bēode, handa hōfigende ofer tōlum, ac sēo cūþe endebyrdnes is gehwirfed. Se gierd is hrēod nīwe gecorfen of ēaofre, gȳt sīpende seap. Se calic is gebrocen tinnen fæt, ādimmod þurh lang gēar chai and rēnes. Þæt sweord is gescyrped bān, his ord gesniden þurh tōþ and stān, and se mynet is smēþe sǣdcodd, gepolishod þurh unārīmedum þūmanprentum. Þisse worulde endebyrdnes, þing, dǣd, willa, hweorfeþ. Nū, þonne hē hefþ þæt hrēod, hwistleþ hit nā lēoþ ac warnung. Se calic, for þām þe hē þurst ācwence, hīedeþ rǣdels on his botme, dǣl clāþes stincende smēþe æfter wyrtruman and storme.
Ǣr stōd þes bēod æt ecge feldes, begeondan þām lāge wyrtbēamas spræddon and wilde wīngerdas urnon ungemet. Hēr wēox bēam, cūþ for his anwillan and dēopum wyrtrumum, on þǣre earman molde. Cnēorissum ǣr gaderodon handa rūhe of gewinne þā coddas, bræcon hīe, wǣcton þone heap, and þrycton hine þurh gewefene windlas. Bleca ætīewdon on ǣlcum brerde. Sēo lyft on cotlife wæs þicce mid stence, scearp and nēah biter. Fingras, wearmas, and ēac ila fōta bǣron þā gāstlīcan hrepunge heora gewinnes wucum. Sēo dēag, dēorost ealra, ne ætīewde hire galdor on dæglēohte ac ānum swā se clāþ drūgode āhangen of bēamum, þrǣdas āheardiende, smocig sceadu slāwe blōwende.
On hyþburges miste ongan monsūnmorgens mid swæce rēnes gemengedum mid gemynde gecnyysedra lēafa. Under hefigum wolcnum ontȳndon cēapmenn heora bālas. Hīe leddon ūt clāþ hefigne swā ēadūst, gemearcodne tō feorrum landum. Þæs drȳs cēap, hēr, næs on þingum ac on hweorfungum: lengo hāmspunnes, ǣr rūh and ānfeald, bær nū mearce feorra hlīþa and færelda cēapfērelta. Feoh hwearf of mynete tō clūde, of clūde tō behāte, of behāte tō race, and siþþan wæs sēo racu self forcorfen and gesīwod on roc, on swātclāþ, on gemynd gesīwod intō hīredes stǣre.
Þes bysen, ǣr kart goldcræftes, wierþ handplega. Þǣr se wyrt ǣr wæs dēore for his lǣcedōme oþþe stence, þēnaþ hē nū swā mearc betwēonan feldum oþþe hegg be ealdum wege lǣdendum tō forlǣtenum mylene. Þǣr se storm ǣr bodode ungelimp wæstmgaderiendum, þwehþ hē nū āweg þæt unclǣne and ætīewþ þone behȳdedan welan on molde. Se lot nis on tōlum, ac on þǣre wīsan þe heora andgiet slīdaþ. Gewederod dǣl þæs clāþes, gehealdan on cyste oþþe gesīwod on fnæde, nis leng tācn hādes ac hāls wiþ forgietnesse, hāls tō gemunenne þæt weorc þe blecþ and ednīwaþ.
Tōdæg meaht þū weallan lēaf þīnes āgenes wyrtūnes for heora stence and gemunan þā handa þe þis dydon ǣr þē. Bind striccan ealdes clāþes tō trēowbōge and sceawa swā se wind his racu wrixlaþ. Þonne storm cymþ, læt hine þwean ofer þīnum andwlitan, and heald swīge ane tīd leng þonne þū gewunelīce woldest. Feald dǣl sumes dēores and dȳf hine on þīnne poccan, tō mynegienne þē selfum þæt nā ǣlc hweorfung fylgþ þām regolum þe þū wēnst.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Wād.
Lucky Color: Indigo — #4B0082Gemyne þā behȳdedan handa bæftan ǣlcum dæghwāmlīcum galdre, for sume racan þurfon rēn tō ætīewenne heora sōþost hīw.