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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Chapter:
The Flight of the Noldoli
Pages: 132–135
Paragraph count:
147
Token count:
924
Citation Index
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p132
THE FLIGHT OF …
⸤¶A! the Trees …
⸤¶gold and silver, …
⸤¶than the moon …
⸤¶their fragrant frith …
⸤¶gardens gleaming, once …
⸤¶In death they …
⸤¶from blackened branches …
⸤¶and Ungoliant the …
⸤¶In spider’s form …
⸤¶a shuddering fear …
⸤¶she weaves in …
⸤¶that is black …
⸤¶the light and …
⸤¶Mirk goes marching, …
⸤¶through the halls …
⸤¶the gates of …
⸤¶Lo! the Elves …
⸤¶but no more …
⸤¶in the winding …
⸤¶towercrownëd Tûn, whose …
⸤¶are drowned in …
⸤¶of fog come …
⸤¶and sunless seas. …
⸤¶of horses’ hooves …
⸤¶in hopeless hunt, …
⸤¶where the Gods …
⸤¶through mournful shadow, …
⸤¶o’er the Blissful …
⸤¶pursue unceasing. The …
⸤¶is thickly thronged. …
⸤¶carven of crystal …
⸤¶stare and twinkle, …
⸤¶and gleaming balusters …
⸤¶A vague rumour …
⸤¶as myriads mount …
⸤¶there fills and …
⸤¶wide ways of …
⸤¶Of the Three …
p133
⸤¶are none but …
⸤¶The Elves of …
⸤¶and starry gardens …
⸤¶upon Timbrenting towering …
⸤¶that day had …
⸤¶mansions of Manwë …
⸤¶There Bredhil the …
⸤¶the Lady of …
⸤¶in lights gleaming …
⸤¶the cold immortal …
⸤¶too fair and …
⸤¶for mortal eyes, …
⸤¶sat silently as …
⸤¶The Foam-riders, folk …
⸤¶Elves of the …
⸤¶of the bays …
⸤¶of silver sands …
⸤¶starlit, sunlit, stones …
⸤¶paleburning gems pearls …
⸤¶on their shining …
⸤¶clutched their laughter, …
⸤¶their mirth and …
⸤¶under cliffs grown …
⸤¶or in shrouded …
⸤¶for the light …
⸤¶But the Gnomes …
⸤¶marshalled and ordered …
⸤¶upon the crown …
⸤¶the fierce son …
⸤¶he held and …
⸤¶those hands whose …
⸤¶knew, that none …
⸤¶hath matched or …
⸤¶‘Lo! slain is …
⸤¶his death he …
⸤¶and deep fastness, …
⸤¶the Three were …
⸤¶that Gnome and …
⸤¶can never remake …
⸤¶recarve or rekindle …
⸤¶not Fëanor Finn’s …
p134
⸤¶the light is …
⸤¶the fate of …
⸤¶Thus the witless …
⸤¶of the Gods’ …
⸤¶to serve them, …
⸤¶to contrive them …
⸤¶their leisure to …
⸤¶while they waste …
⸤¶nor can Morgoth …
⸤¶at countless councils. …
⸤¶who have courage …
⸤¶to flight, to …
⸤¶The woods of …
⸤¶yet in darkness …
⸤¶the pathless plains …
⸤¶no moon yet …
⸤¶in dew and …
⸤¶far better were …
⸤¶than gardens of …
⸤¶with idleness filled …
⸤¶Yea! though the …
⸤¶beyond heart’s desire …
⸤¶here long and …
⸤¶Our gems are …
⸤¶and the Three, …
⸤¶globes of crystal …
⸤¶illumined, lit by …
⸤¶and all hues’ …
⸤¶Morgoth has them …
⸤¶my Silmarils. I …
⸤¶unbreakable bonds to …
⸤¶by Timbrenting and …
⸤¶of Bredhil the …
⸤¶may she hear …
⸤¶unwearying unwavering through …
⸤¶through leaguered lands, …
⸤¶over fens and …
⸤¶till I find …
⸤¶of the folk …
⸤¶where alone now …
⸤¶Then his sons …
p135
⸤¶crafty Curufin, Celegorm …
⸤¶Damrod and Díriel …
⸤¶Maglor the mighty, …
⸤¶(the eldest, whose …
⸤¶than his father’s …
⸤¶him fate awaited …
⸤¶these leapt with …
⸤¶with linkëd hands …
⸤¶the oath unbreakable; …
⸤¶it spilled like …
⸤¶of endless armies, …
⸤¶‘Be he friend …
⸤¶of Morgoth Bauglir, …
⸤¶that in after …
⸤¶shall no law …
⸤¶no might nor …
⸤¶defend him for …
⸤¶of the sons …
⸤¶or finding keep …
⸤¶globes of crystal …
⸤¶the Silmarils. We …
⸤¶Then a mighty …
⸤¶and the harkening …
⸤¶‘Let us go! …
⸤¶on Morgoth’s trail …
⸤¶to vengeance and …