Hēah getimbre bifþ on winde, stānas slāwode ac gȳt clifiende, endebyrdnes hīew mid ānum gemynde gehealdan. Se scearpa bric on stānweorce gāpeþ swā wund þe gȳt ne mōt blōdian. Līget besmīt þone feorran ymbhwyrft, þrēatiende, yldende. Inne is se lyft þicce mid dūste and mid anbīde. On worulde þæs underbæc gecierredan Stīpeles healt þæt wæferd his ōþm. Sēo tōberstung biþ ylded, þæt hīew wunaþ heardlīce uprihte. Hit is spell fæstenes þe sceolde feallan, ac þæs weallas lǣtaþ swā hīe hāle sīen, ēac swā se līm inne hrēoseþ.
Be stīpeles grunde secgaþ cnyssede wegas cempena scōa gearhund wæcce. Sēo eorþe is flæt þrungen, dol gedrēfed, heard bōc wera þe wǣron beboden hiera grund tō healdenne. Sēo ilce eorþe, tīengum geara ǣr, wæs ūp ādelfen and on canfassaccum gefylled tō dīclīnum, on rūhne clāþ þrungen, on hrægl gesceapen þe sceolde tōdierne on þǣre ilcan molde. On hēahre hǣte feorra emnetta stōd hwīlum here on hryres ecge, swāt niþer yrnende under strangum scyrtum þāra þrǣdas bǣron gemynd dūststorma and þæs hīeweres handweorces. Se clāþ wæs nytlic, dōmlic, ōþer hȳd tō þolunge getimbrod, gehīewod tō forswindenne on forscruncenum gærse oþþe on hātte būtan wolcnum.
Elles iernþ þæt spell underbæc tō ealdum cēapstōwum, þǣr cēapmen wēgon loccas fæste gewefenes clāþes on ǣrenum wǣgum. Se clāþ wæs gesōht mid cēapmannum þe be ēaecgum and olfendwegum fērdon, of Punjab tō Cairo and begeondan. Þonne se monsun mislēah and þā wegas tō dūste wurdon, fērdon þā cēapmen forþ, hiera waru wiþ sunnan and wind gescildod mid þȳ ilcan geweofe þe cempan geheold. Æt hām brōcodon wīf þā strangweorhtan tunece sunum and werum, fingras mid scearpum lȳtlum nǣdlum þrycte, stenc drȳges healmes of weorcflōre ūpāstigende.
Sete þæt ilce gærs be ecge hrēosendes wealles, oþþe cnēow tō wēodienne hit. Onbyrge hlāflicne hlāf of hwǣte gegrunden on stānmylenum þe hweorfiaþ on wēstenes ecge, þǣr se wind dūst of ealdum feldum berþ. On cycene nim weredne mulinclāþ, beweorp hine ymb warmne hlāf, and gemyne smēþnesse sunnādrȳgedra healma tō cēape gebundenera. On stillum æftermiddae nim cnyssedne canfascodde, yrn þīne handa be his brærde, and gemyne his færeld þurh tollum and weardstōwum, fæt gewunelīcra wundra þurhwununge.
Sandstorm inn hweorfeþ, his ōþung hāt, his ecg mid rǣwum gebundenera hrēoda and mid tældclāþe tōbrǣddum betwēonan teldstacum ādyspod. Se heofon biþ mid anbīde gehefegod. Se micla hryre nis gȳt cumen, ac ǣlc tōl, ǣlc clāþes dǣl, ǣlc handfull cornes healt þæt ealde hīew lytle leng standende. Tūn þurhwunaþ for þȳ þe hē leornaþ tō werenne blēo þolunge, tō forswindenne on openre gesihþe, tō habbenne naman þæs þinges þe hē swīþost behōfaþ tō libbenne.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dūstfealu.
Lucky Color: Khaki — #F0E68CÞā weallas standaþ gȳt, ēac swā se lyft hryre hwistlaþ, and heald fæste, and forswind on þȳ þe þurhwunaþ.