Bēag of lēafum ymbgǣþ þā plegestran, and hire stæpe is lēoht and trum, and sēo wrǣd æt hire midle belūcþ ānne ymbhwyrft, þā hwīle þe fēower libbende nīetenu standaþ on þām hyrnum, stille and gīmenfulle. Þǣre cartan mearc nis nā weall, ac libbende rand, weg þe bōgum and stillum ryne fulfremednesse is gemearcod. Hēr is sēo woruld andweard on stilnesse ealdra wuda, þǣr ende cenneþ anginn, and ealle þing sind mid tīde and wæstme tōgædere gewefen.
On heortan þāra wuda þisse worulde is se lyft cōl and welig mid stence teorwes and wǣtre molde. Hēage trummas ārīsaþ swā ealde heahcyrcean, and heora helmas mētaþ ufan and wyrcaþ hleow, and sunnan lēoht cymþ inn missenlīce. On ealdum wudum Europan ēodon huntan and wyrtgaderiend carfullīce, and nāmon swammas be wyrttruman bōcbēama and āca, and gaderodon wilde gārlēac on dægrēd. Feorror ēast rǣddon munecas on Rūsiscum ānsetlum heora gebedu be þiccum sprūcum, and heora reaf hrinon fearnas þe ymb feallene bēamas wundon. On Norþamerica wōxon brādlēafede trēow and ēce grēne ætsomne on langum landum Appalacie, and heora sceadwa wǣron hām foxum and heortum, and spellum þe of cneorisse tō cneorisse ēodon be þǣre wīsdōme þe on middan þām wuda wunaþ.
Þās wudas habbaþ gescapen spell and þēaw. On ealdre Grēclande cyndon lāwerbōgas þā sigefæstan, libbende tācn gefylledra fara and gewunnenra āra. Hyrdas and tūnsetlan fram Carpatum oþ Alpas habbaþ lange gaderod wyrtum and bōgum, and wæfon hīe tō hringum on symbeltīde, tō mearcunge þæs þe ān gēar belūcþ and ōþer ontȳnþ. On westan Affrica, under helme hēagra enta, gaderiaþ hīredas colanhnyte and wilde yamas, gifa landes þe hine selfne on ǣlcum rēntīman nīwaþ. On Iapane is se wudu stillu gefēra: cedergrāfas ymbstandaþ hālgstōwum, and þā landlēode bindaþ pæperne gebedu tō twigum, and getrīewaþ þām gāstum þe on þǣre ealdan sceade wuniaþ.
Cēap and cræft habbaþ ā folgod þæs wuda stillan endebyrdnesse. Wuduhēawan scōpon bēamas templum and hāmum, and lǣceas drȳgdon telgran and pīnhnyte tō hǣlendum drencum. On hūsum cræftes on Scandinavie worhton trēowwyrhtan bleda and sponas of feallenum limum beorce and alres, and ārdon þā geþyld wæstmes. On hāmum fram hēahlandum Scotlandes oþ Balcanum sēoþon menn wilde grēne wyrta tō ānfaldum gereorde, oþþe hengon pīnbōgas ofer þā duru tō gelimpe and nīwunge.
Se weder innan þissum grāfum is woruld on him selfum. Æfter rēne glisnaþ se grund, and ǣlc lēaf hielt bifigende dropan. On lenctene stīhþ se sæp, and se underwuda hlymþ mid bisgum ǣmettum and smalum flēogendum, and se hærfest bringþ slāwne drift nǣdla and mēþe swōte lēafdrāfe þe ǣlcne stæpe hleoweþ. Winter stillaþ þone trēowhelm, ac līf bīdeþ under, gearu tō onginnanne swā sōna swā sēo þāwung cymþ. Sēo wrǣd nis nǣfre sōþlīce belocen. Hēo is ymbwunden tō þǣre nīehstan tīde, tō þām nīehstan plege.
Tōdæg mæg mann stille stæppan under hēagum bōgum on nēahum wudulēa, oþþe gaderian handful wyrtum and settan on bolle on cycene bēode. Mann mæg gearwian ānfald gereord of wildum grēnum, oþþe wefan hring nīwra bōga tō āhōnne ofer þā duru, tācn nīwunge. Þus biþ se ymbhwyrft þǣre worulde ārōd, and sēo stilla strengu þāra wuda cymþ hām.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Wudugrēne.
Lucky Color: ForestGreen — #228B22Læt gāst þæs dēopan wuda þē forþ lǣdan, and ber sibbe ealdra grāfa nēah þīnre heortan.