On þǣre cartan brǣde rītt cild hors under heofone būtan wolcnum. Behindan him hebbaþ ormǣte sunnanblōstmas hiera ansīena tō þǣm openan lyfte, and fana flitereþ, lēoht swā melu on sumeres winde. Ǣlc þing is gesceapen on sweotolnesse, ǣlc þing ymbmeten and his sōþum gemetum eft giefen. Nān mist nis, ne nān gedwol. Se morgen is ǣr hēr. Sēo woruld is andweard þǣre handa and þǣm ēagan.
On heortan landlices midsumeres bīoþ māisēaras onbrǣdede on wīdum feldum, and hiera seolucþrǣdas ātīewde. Þā þrǣdas, nēah ungehefige, slīdaþ betwēonan fingrum, and hīe bīoþ āstricene þonne þā cornas tō middes dæges mete gearwode bīoþ. Hīe gaderiaþ on þǣm cycenbēode, gemynd weaxunge þe geþyld and sunnan behōfode. Gearahwīlum wendon handa on cycenum ofer ealle worulde þās seolucstrengas tō drence, gemynt tō līþiganne and tō clǣnsienne þone līchaman, oþþe hīe brǣdon hīe tō tācnum gesǣlnesse. On þǣm berne, æfter hærfeste, findaþ þās glitniendan strengas weg on hætte fōdrum oþþe on swealewena nestum hēah under þǣm oferslegum.
On openum cēapstōwum and on tūnfreolsum bīoþ lȳtle cicelas gebacene of melwe þe of þǣm cornum is grundon, hiera hēafdu mid dūste besprengde þe þæt lēoht fēhþ. Þās cicelas bīoþ gesette on windlum mid līnclāþe gefōdrodum, and on ǣrnemergen ūt borene fram þǣm þe ār āriseþ tō þæs dæges weorce. Se clāþ under þǣm cicelum is fæste gewefen, of þǣm formum þrǣdum þæs hærfestes aspunnen, and hē fēhþ þæt lēoht þe þurh cycenēagþȳrel gytt. Þǣr is andgiet genihtes, oncnāwung geswinces þe tō wæstme cōm, and līþe endebyrdnes on gesetnesse bēodes, windle, clāþes, and metes.
Fērendas on feorrum landum gemunan hū þā forman sunnan lēoman gytaþ ofer þā feldas, and hīe hrīnaþ feldas þǣr þæt gærs is hēah and wilde, mid þǣm lǣsestan dūste besmēad æfter nihte būtan dēawe. On þǣm ealdum spellum wæs þis sēo tīd þonne hīewas eft cōmon tō þǣre worulde æfter nihtes ungesceapendre þēostrum. Wegas, hegas, and ūtmearce feorra trēowa ætīewdon eft, getrīewe swā ealde frȳnd. Hyrdas and tīliendas, āwacene ǣr ōþrum, woldon wacian hū þæt lēoht fōr ofer belifnum hærfestes healme, ǣlc healm and ǣlc stān his āgen hīew eft fōn. Þāra ūtmearca eftcyme cȳþde nā þæt ān þǣre nihte ende, ac ēac gewisnesse edniwunge. On þǣre tīde wearþ þǣre worulde brærd eft gefēre, and sceadwa nǣron nā grynu, ac sum þing mid willan geworpen.
On sumum hāmettum bīoþ pylefatu gefylled mid þǣm þrǣdum þe of þǣm onbrǣdinge belifon, hnesce þe hæfþ gemynd þæs ærran sumeres hǣte. Þās pylefatu restaþ on ēagþȳrelsetlum oþþe on bencum on sunnrūmum, stōwum þǣr man mæg still sittan, pisan onscillan oþþe ārendgewrit wrītan. Wāgrift of lēohtum clāþe bifiaþ on openum ēagþȳrele, and hīe lǣtaþ inn þone wind þe berþ stenc feorra felda. Hwǣr cild lǣt þone seolucstrican on glæsfæt feallan, and hit wacaþ hū hē setleþ, swā hē bīde ārendes þe scyle ætīewan.
Tōdæg mæg man þā hulu of māisēare onbrǣdan, and þone seoluc on bolle feallan lǣtan tō latorre note, oþþe hine on hātum wætere brēowan tō drence þe berþ þone hwist felda. Man mæg sum þing ēaþelīc bacan, cornhlāf oþþe lȳtle cicelas, and hīe on windle on clāþe lecgan, and mid frēonde dǣlan. Oþþe, on stillre tīde, sitt on þǣm ǣrran lēohte, and lǣt þinga ūtmearce eft cuman, and oncnāw hwæt sēo sunne þǣm rūme eft giefþ.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Hwǣtegeolu.
Lucky Color: Cornsilk — #FFF8DCLǣt sweotolnesse eft cuman and þone dæg scieppan, for þȳ þe þæt gehȳdede biþ þǣre handa eft giefen.