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[ti:Song of Beren and Luthien] |
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The leaves were long, the grass was green, |
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The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, |
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And in the glade a light was seen |
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Of stars in shadow shimmering. |
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Tinúviel was dancing there |
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To music of a pipe unseen, |
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And light of stars was in her hair, |
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And in her raiment glimmering. |
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There Beren came from mountains cold, |
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And lost he wandered under leaves, |
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And where the Elven-river rolled |
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He walked alone and sorrowing. |
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He peered between the hemlock-leaves |
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And saw in wander flowers of gold |
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Upon her mantle and her sleeves, |
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And her hair like shadow following. |
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Enchantment healed his weary feet |
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That over hills were doomed to roam; |
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And forth he hastened, strong and fleet, |
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And grasped at moonbeams glistening. |
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Through woven woods in Elvenhome |
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She tightly fled on dancing feet, |
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And left him lonely still to roam |
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In the silent forest listening. |
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He heard there oft the flying sound |
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Of feet as light as linden-leaves, |
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Or music welling underground, |
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In hidden hollows quavering. |
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Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves, |
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And one by one with sighing sound |
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Whispering fell the beechen leaves |
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In the wintry woodland wavering. |
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He sought her ever, wandering far |
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Where leaves of years were thickly strewn, |
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By light of moon and ray of star |
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In frosty heavens shivering. |
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Her mantle glinted in the moon, |
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As on a hill-top high and far |
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She danced, and at her feet was strewn |
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A mist of silver quivering. |
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When winter passed, she came again, |
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And her song released the sudden spring |
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Like rising lark, and falling rain, |
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And melting water bubbling. |
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He saw the elven-flowers spring |
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About her feet, and healed again |
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He longed by her to dance and sing |
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Upon the grass untroubling. |
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Again she fled, but swift he came. |
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Tinúviel! Tinúviel! |
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He called her by her elvish name; |
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And there she halted listening. |
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One moment stood she, and a spell |
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His voice laid on her: Beren came, |
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And doom fell on Tinúviel |
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That in his arms lay glistening. |
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As Beren looked into her eyes |
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Within the shadows of her hair, |
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The trembling starlight of the skies |
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He saw there mirrored shimmering. |
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Tinúviel the elven-fair, |
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Immortal maiden elven-wise, |
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About him cast her shadowy hair |
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And arms like silver glimmering. |
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Long was the way that fate them bore, |
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O'er stony mountains cold and grey, |
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Through halls of iron and darkling door, |
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And woods of nightshade morrowless. |
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The Sundering Seas between them lay, |
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And yet at last they met once more, |
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And long ago they passed away |
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In the forest singing sorrowless. |
