On midnihtes ecge, under þæs wendendan mōnan locunge, bifiaþ wundende pæþ betwēonan twām ealdum stānstīpelum. Sēo eorþe is hnesce, and dēaw āstīhþ, and fōtlāstas drifaþ nēah þǣr hund snīfeþ mid ēarum niþer and wulf ābīet, þone nosu āhafen tō þǣre wǣtan lyfte. Se pæþ ne biþ nǣfre fullīce sweotol. Sēo woruld biþ healf gesewen þā þæs mōnan lēoht glīt ofer þyrnum. Polas be þǣre strǣte healdaþ þone heofon, geȳþode mid þæs feorran flōdes teone, and se swīge biþ tōbrocen ānlīce mid feorran belle.
Betwēonan þissum stīpelum stincþ sēo woruld ǣfnes and telgran, and ēac sumes līþran þinges, þæs stences þe se wind berþ of þǣm feldum þǣrbūtan, þǣr rǣwa lȳtelra blācra blōstmena sind gegaderod on þǣm cōlum tīdum ǣr dægrēde. Handan þe farþ þurh þās rǣwa habbaþ geleornod līþe geþyld, and plucciaþ spicas tō pusan, and bindan hīe on cnuwum tō āhōnne on cycenum oþþe tō lecgenne on līnclāþcestum. Se stenc wunaþ on fingrum: clǣne, scearp, lȳtel swēte, and ā tācnigende stōwa þe sind ūtan gesihþe. On Prōvence beorgum and on Englalandes woldum habbaþ þās feldas gelegen manig hund gēara, and heora gaderung biþ dēore for þǣm ele þe man of þǣm lȳtlum blōstmum wringþ, and hē biþ gehæfd on glæse and on corce and boren ofer langum wegum tō cēapstōwum.
On ealdum lǣcehūsum wǣron þā drȳgan telgran gebundne on bēagum and on lȳtlum pusan, tō āwyrgenne sceade and tō smyltenne swefnu, and man lecge hīe under bolstrum þe þā ondrēdon þe on nihte slīd. On slǣpes þerscolde āstāh stēam of wætere þe wæs āgoten ofer þā ilcan gegaderodan blōstman, and fylde þā būras mid wearmnesse. Se stēam mearcode þone weg of wæcce tō swefne, lādþēow þǣm þe stōpon on ungewisse paþas. Sǣfarende gnidon þā lēaf betwēonan fingrum, and getrȳwedon þǣm scearpan stence þæt hē heora geþōht fæste, þā flōdas hīe feor fram hām tugon.
Weder bringþ hwīlum þone blōstm, þēah nā mid handa. On hēagum denum swēpeþ morgenmist niþer, and hnesceþ þā beorgas, and sēo eorþe orþaþ þone ilcan stenc þā sēo forma sunne glīt of þǣm feldum. Hyrdas, āna mid heora heordum, habbaþ þone swīgan cūþne and his frōfor: þæt swēg þæs wulles þe strīcþ þurh stelena rǣwa, þæt beora bēat, þæt slāwe wending þāra wolcna bufan. Þǣr ednīwaþ sēo woruld hire mearce betwēonan wæcce and healfbeorhtum, betwēonan þǣm tamum and þǣm wildan.
On hūsum bīdaþ lȳtle bytlan on bordum, gearwe tō āgēotenne on bæþwæter oþþe tō drȳcenne on þunwange ǣr slǣpe. Ealde bēodclāþas, mid handa gedēagode and āblecede þurh manige wæsca, healdaþ heora smalan stenc æfter gēarum on cedercystum. Ǣrendgewritu of feorrum stōwum magon beran gedrȳcnedne blōstm innan, gemynd tācn þǣm þe wǣron forlæfene. Þæs blōstman andweardnes, swā swā stenc oþþe wyrt oþþe gemynd, is swīge ac geornful, þrǣd þurh sceadum, and mearcaþ weg þonne lēoht þynnaþ.
Sum mann mæg tōdæg līþne drenc gebrēowan, and lǣtan þone stēam āstīgan tō gemynde þæt hē slāwe gā þurh ungewisnesse. Þū meaht telgran gnīdan betwēonan þīnum handum ǣr slǣpe, oþþe ānne on þīnne pohhan dōn ǣr þū fare ofer þerscold þe fremde þyncþ. Āhōh lȳtelne cnuw ofer duru, oþþe wrīt ǣrendgewrit þǣm þe frōfre behōfaþ, and lecge þǣrinne behāt lȳtles āblecedes blōstmes.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Lēoht basu.
Lucky Color: Lavender — #E6E6FAGetrīewe þǣre blācan blōstman þǣr se pæþ is healf gesewen, and lǣt þā lyft þē līþelīce þurh þā niht beran.