On midre nihte is se wyl behindan hūse ymbhringed mid dēawe, his stānas cōle under nihtlyfte. Wīf cnēowlaþ æt his ecge, twēgen croccas gewegene on hire handum. Hēo is cumen tō edgiefenne þæt þe ātogen wæs: wæter gegaderod and wæter frēo gesett. Ān crocc hine tȳnþ, and āgȳt his innoþ on þā þyrstige eorþan, his pæþ swīge offrung. Se ōþer gȳt on þone mere, þæs wæteres brādnes ȳþigende on steorranlēohte. Bufan healdeþ ān lēoht steorra hēafod on openum heofone, ymbhringed mid seofon lǣssum swā swīgum sweostrum. Þæs wīfes hiw and hire færeld biþ gespeglod on þǣre wendendan glitniendan brādnesse, behāt þæt sēo woruld biþ geedstaþelod, dropan be dropan.
On norþernum rīmum, ǣr dægrēde, nimþ sēo woruld syndrigne swīgan. Ēagþyrlu drȳccaþ wiþ ciele, and ūte gaderaþ forst on helan wyrtūngeates. Sēo lyft gehēraþ þǣre tīde ǣr sunnan ūpgange, cōl and nēah þurhsīene, cwicu mid hyhte sumes līþes cumendes of orrīman. Þis is sēo tīd þonne cēolrēc āstīhþ riht and sōþ, unāstyred mid winde, and blāc mist wint be hegum. Spell cweþaþ þæt on swilcum morgenum ēode geong cwēn hwīlum wyrtūnas hire palant æt cildhāde, hire cyrtel slēande behindan, gaderigende dēaw of gærese ǣr þēos woruld elles āwōce. Hire lārēow, behealdende of stānþerscolde, wolde hīe bewindan on sculdorhrægle gewefenum of þǣm sēlestan wulle, hnesce swā orþung ǣres dæges.
On ceastre set se mētere hire clāþ nēah openum ēagþyrle tō fōnne þone forman sīc morgenes. Hēo dȳpþ hire þīnsel on wæter, hweorfende hit mid geþylde sumes þe hlyst æfter feorrum bellum. Se blēo þe hēo sēcþ ne mæg bēon gemenged of þǣm forman blēom, ac sceal bēon ālōcod of gemynde and ealdum spellum: smale ecge bēodclāþes gelegdes tō cume þe nǣfre cymþ, feorre hās on sǣ þā scipu nēalǣcaþ heora hāmhæfen, smæl blōstm croccenes fætes gesettes on scrīne tō syndrigum tīdum. Se mētere geman spell: cēapmannes dohtor, þe seglode of mistigre īege, brōhte eft nā meregrot ne wyrtas, ac smale tēlēaf bewunden on blæde swā þynne þæt hīe nēah fordwinon þonne man hīe heold tō lēohte. Man cwæþ þæt drincan þisne tē on swīgum morgenum brōhte sweotolnesse and hyht, ēac on sceade ungewisra tīda.
Ealde wederbēc sprecaþ seldra daga þonne se heofon swā sweotol biþ þæt beorgas magon bēon gesewene of tūnum manig mīla feor. On þissum dagum ætīewþ se orrīma āþwogen and līþe, behātende fæger weder and gehealdne fær. Windfana bufan landgesthūsum hweorfaþ slāwe, tācnigende norþweard, þā fisceras bētaþ heora nett be strande, getrȳwende þæt stormas wuniaþ on weg. Cild on leornhūsum mearciaþ ymbhwyrft wolcna on weaxenum tigelum, swefnigende sumeres freolsa and þā feorran stōwa forþ ofer feldum.
Þū meaht settan crocc wæteres tōniht, and lǣtan hine restan on fordyre þā steorran ūpārīsaþ bufan. Feald handclāþ of smælum līne and sete hine be þīnum morgenes tē, ongietende þā swīgan sweotolnesse þǣre tīde ǣr se dæg sōþlīce onginnþ. Heald wederbōc āne wucu, wrītende þæs heofones hnescesse æt dægrēde and þone weg þe lēoht hrīnþ hēafdu feorra trēowa. Oþþe, gif þū hæfst lēof spell oþþe lēoþ, rǣd hit hlūd nēah æfter sunnan ūpgange, and lǣt his smyltnesse gān on þone būr mid þīnre orþunge.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blāchæwen.
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