Þǣre cartan hwēol, gerīmod mid tācnum nīetena and fiþera, scolde hweorfan on openum, fōnde lēoht þā hwīle þe hit ymb fæstne stede gǣþ. Ac nū ætstent se hīw: se rima þyncþ gehefgod, spācan gefangene on ungesewenre hōce. For stīginge is niþergang þæs hwēoles stilnes, hand clifiende tō ætstentenne þā hweorfunge ǣr ymbhwyrft gefylled sīe, willende tō ætstentenne gang wyrde, tō stillenne þæt hlūde getimbre hweorfunge.
On þǣre stilnesse drīfþ se mōd tō þām þingum þe on ecge gesihþes gaderiaþ. Smēþe ēastān, gehealden on pūsan, cōl and nēah ungesewen on ǣfen. Se stān is þicce, eald, gescapen mid endelēasum ymbhwyrftum, and þēah is his weorc stillu. His andweardnes fæstnaþ þā hand þe īdellīce clīfþ tō stilnesse. Sēo ilce anbīdung biþ gefunden on þām glæsodan bolle, restendum on nīþum wudenan bēode, fæte tō þām ānfealdostan rīse oþþe tō handfulle cirisena. Se bolla sūpþ lēoht, and giefþ lȳtel eft, gehealden tō healdenne his innoþ and tō scīnenne āna þā dimmostan līnan. Ǣgþer se stān and se bolla sind endas ymbhwyrfta, anbīdungstōwa, stōwa þǣr sēo hand restan mæg.
Spell inwindeþ, sēo racu Anubises þe heortan þāra dēadra wæg be feþere sōþes. Hē stent on līne, se hundehēafda dēmend, on middan cōlum gangum þǣr gang ānes līfes tō ōþrum hangaþ on stilnesse ānrer tīde. Þā wǣga restaþ bufan smīcdeorcum basalte, stāne stillra byrgena and ealdre nihte. On his andweardnesse is tō styrienne pleoh, tō bīdienne is tō lǣtenne þæt gemet bēon genumen, þæt se wȳsc wunie ǣr wyrd mannes gesetled sīe. Swā is hit mid þām niþerhweorfendan hwēole, hand gesett tō ætstentenne, wȳsc tō wunienne on rūme būtan dægrēd.
On þǣre worulde ūte fealleþ niht. Dweliende cat, his hȳd glisniende on ecge lēohtfætes, slīdeþ under īsenum hecge. Snǣd heofones on midre nihte, unwolcnod and unbrocen, tōsprēdeþ begēondan burghrofum. Nēah þām grunde stent se ealda regnscēad on hyrnan, geribbod and gefealden, his brerd fōnde þæt dimmoste dūst. Hē bīdeþ stille rēnes, scild wiþ þām cumendan storme, and þēah nū gehealden tō restenne ungesewen.
Cēap and geþyld cunnon þās stilnesse ēac. Se scēadswāpa, his handa gemarcod of clǣnsunge ealdra heorþa þǣre burge, eftcymþ hām æfter ǣfen. Se colcēapmann, mid his līnenan sacce, lǣfþ swaþu on duruþerscoldum, lāfa hǣte tō þǣre nihte. Þās sind healdas þæs þerscoldes, heora weorc gelimpende æfter sunnan setlgange, scieppende warmþe and geheald hāma þā hwīle þe ōþre hīe tō slǣpe gearwiaþ.
On wedre drȳcþ se mōnalēasa heofon nēah, hrōf ofer feldum and gangum gelīce. Sēo woruld swīgaþ. Āna stilnes feorra cræta, hræstl nihtwindes þurh īdele strǣta, fyllaþ þone lyft. Frōfor is on þissum ymbegunge, gelimp tō ætstentenne and tō orþienne, and tō wiþsacenne ofst dægrēdes.
Tōniht meaht þū rǣcan æfter gladum stāne, āwearmum on þīnre folme, þā hwīle þe þū be ēagþȳrele sittst. Þū meaht cuppan fyllan mid blæcdeorcum tēa and hine slāwe drincan, lǣtende þā warmþe sittan. Tēah þā wāgriftu, and hlyst, æne, tō þǣre stilnesse betwēonan fōtswaþum. Oþþe stæpe ūt æfter sunnan setlgange, and læt þone unbrocenan heofon þē gemyngian þæt stilnes mæg bēon hire āgen hīw scilde.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Blæc.
Lucky Color: Black — #000000Bēo stillu, and læt þæt hwēol restan, and bīd, and sceawa hwæt on þǣre stilnesse ætīewþ.