Þæt micla hwēol, ǣr beorht mid steorrum and wyrdum, hwerfþ nū niþer on slāwre stilnesse. On spellum nis þis hwēol nā metal ac stān, hefig swā þā mīlgemearca þe ealde wegas ymbstandaþ. Hit styreþ nā on hǣse, ac mid slāwum drifte tīda. Þonne his ecge niþer wīsaþ, mēþgaþ se hlimm, and is wȳsc tō healdanne þā hand, tō ætstentenne þæt unforbugendlīce. Þis is þæt stilla betwēox betwēonan ende and angine, orþ gehealden under þiccum wolcne.
Ūt on þām mōrum, under wīdum brǣde heofones, wrīhþ morgenmist þæt land. Hē wrīhþ stānhrofas, and legeþ hine andlang hrycga ealdra mylna. Hēr, on þām dimman, bēoþ gelimp gemeten on tīdum, hwīlum on stilnesse æfter rēne, hwīlum on anbīdunge ǣr se wind eft styre. Sēo woruld is āsmēþed, swā hēo bīde tācnes. Hyrde mæg standan be drȳgstānwealle, bōtas āsuncene on þone cōlan tyrf, waciende scēap gaderian on þǣre hleowsīdan. Ufan ceorfaþ gewērode ciricstīpelas þone mist, heora stānweorc āsweartod mid gēarum smīces and stormes. On tūnum getimbrodum of gedolfenum stāne glisnaþ gangas mid regne nīehstan nihte, and īsenrīman dropiaþ mid wætere.
Innan þissum weallum restaþ handa on þingum gescapenum tō þurhwununge. Se heorþ is geswāpen, and se cetel, eald mid brȳce, sitt on þām ofne, his brerd ādeafod of cneorissum stēames and līege. On weorcbede on stillum rūme bīdeþ hwetstān be stabele nægla and scrūwa. Þæs stānwyrhtan wæfels, gemearcod mid gēarum geþyldes, hangaþ be þǣre dura. On þǣre cycene sitt rīgehlāf, gerindod of slāwum bacce, on spilbēode, cruman tōstencede of þām ǣrestan snide. Ǣlc tōl and fæt hielt gemynd: þæs delfendes mēlfæt, þæs wyrtweardes spadu, þæs locwyrhtan pīc, ealle hrinene mid lyre and edciere.
Stǣr clīfþ tō stōwum þǣr gelimp ætstent oþþe bād. On hēahlandum slāpaþ ealde burga under hefigum heofonum, heora duru gesealde wiþ wintra. Wegfarende on nearwum wegum ofergāþ mearcstānas, dēope gesette mid handum lange forgānum. On ceapstōwe lecgaþ cēapmenn heora waru, croccan, rūhlīce geweofen clāþ, sester tryffla gedolfen of wyrttruman. Is stilnes on þǣre wrixle, gefēl þæt ǣlc cēap is pleoh, wacod mid þām ungesewenan.
Swilc weder nis nāþer storm ne clǣnnes, ac þæt betwēox, unāblinnend mist, regnscūr þe on wulle and on bān sīgeþ. Se lyft is gefylled mid stence wǣtre eorþan, swæcce cōles tēa, hrinenesse rūhes līnes. Hit is sēo tīd ǣr sunnan ūpgange, þonne lēohtfætes glæshrofas smīcaþ and þā nīehstan glēda on þām heorþe stille styriaþ. On swilcum tīdum bēoþ wȳscas mid wærenesse gedōne. Gelimp nis nā gesōht, ac gestiled, swā þonne se hwyrfel biþ āstyþed ǣr þām snide, oþþe þonne hafocere þone fugol stilleþ ǣr his flyhte.
Gif þū þē findst on þisse hweorfunge, meaht þū stān of þām wege niman and healdan oþ hē on þīnre folme wearmige. Þū meaht þone ealdan cǣg gladian þe on þīnre ciste sitt, oþþe þone heorþ swāpan and lætan þone swēg þurh þā rūm gān. Þū meaht stillne weg gān andlang lāne mid stāne gemearcodre, oþþe ǣrendgewrit wrītan þām þæs hand þū wana bist. On ǣlcere dǣde is geþyld, and scieppung gelimpes tō slāwum, trumum hyhte.
Tōdæges wyrdblēo is Dimgræg.
Lucky Color: DimGray — #696969Læt geþyld þē on þām miste findan, and heald stilnesse swā hīw strengu.