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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 161–168
Paragraph count:
303
Token count:
1,973
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II …
⸤¶Far in the …
⸤¶in caverns black …
⸤¶by fires illumined …
⸤¶that winds of …
⸤¶made flare and …
⸤¶the wavering bitter …
⸤¶the sunless airs …
⸤¶where evil things …
⸤¶There sat a …
⸤¶nor mortal blood, …
⸤¶of earth or …
⸤¶far older, stronger …
⸤¶the world is …
⸤¶that burns within …
⸤¶and thoughts profound …
⸤¶a gloomy power …
⸤¶Unconquerable spears of …
⸤¶were at his …
⸤¶the legions of …
⸤¶on whom did …
⸤¶and black the …
⸤¶upon their banners …
⸤¶was heard their …
⸤¶above the reek …
⸤¶With fire and …
⸤¶on all that …
⸤¶like lightning fell. …
⸤¶lay groaning neath …
⸤¶But still there …
⸤¶undaunted, Barahir the …
⸤¶of land bereaved, …
⸤¶who once a …
⸤¶and now an …
⸤¶in the hard …
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⸤¶and with him …
⸤¶but Beren his …
⸤¶Yet small as …
⸤¶still fell and …
⸤¶and strong deeds …
⸤¶and loved the …
⸤¶them seemed than …
⸤¶to live and …
⸤¶King Morgoth still …
⸤¶with men and …
⸤¶with spells of …
⸤¶to slay them …
⸤¶yet nought hurt …
⸤¶until, in brief …
⸤¶have oft bewailed …
⸤¶nor ever tears …
⸤¶a deed unhappy; …
⸤¶their feet were …
⸤¶Gorlim it was, …
⸤¶of toil and …
⸤¶one night by …
⸤¶o’er the dark …
⸤¶with hidden friend …
⸤¶and found a …
⸤¶against the misty …
⸤¶save one small …
⸤¶of fitful candle …
⸤¶Therein he peeped, …
⸤¶he saw, as …
⸤¶when longing cheats …
⸤¶his wife beside …
⸤¶lament him lost; …
⸤¶and greying hair …
⸤¶of tears and …
⸤¶‘A! fair and …
⸤¶whom I had …
⸤¶long since emprisoned! …
⸤¶I deemed I …
⸤¶upon that night …
⸤¶when all I …
⸤¶thus thought his …
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⸤¶outside in darkness …
⸤¶But ere he …
⸤¶or ask how …
⸤¶to this far …
⸤¶he heard a …
⸤¶There hooted near …
⸤¶with boding voice. …
⸤¶of the wild …
⸤¶and dogged his …
⸤¶Him unrelenting, well …
⸤¶the hunt of …
⸤¶Lest Eilinel with …
⸤¶without a word …
⸤¶and like a …
⸤¶his devious ways …
⸤¶of stream, and …
⸤¶until far from …
⸤¶he lay beside …
⸤¶in a secret …
⸤¶and waned, and …
⸤¶and saw the …
⸤¶in dank heavens …
⸤¶A sickness held …
⸤¶and hope, and …
⸤¶if he might …
⸤¶But all he …
⸤¶and hatred of …
⸤¶and anguish for …
⸤¶who drooped alone, …
⸤¶Yet at the …
⸤¶of brooding did …
⸤¶he found the …
⸤¶and bade them …
⸤¶a rebel who …
⸤¶if haply forgiveness …
⸤¶with tidings of …
⸤¶and where his …
⸤¶might best be …
⸤¶And thus sad …
⸤¶unto those dark …
⸤¶before the knees …
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⸤¶and puts his …
⸤¶wherein no truth …
⸤¶Quoth Morgoth: ‘Eilinel …
⸤¶thou shalt most …
⸤¶where she doth …
⸤¶together shall ye …
⸤¶and sundered shall …
⸤¶This guerdon shall …
⸤¶these tidings sweet, …
⸤¶For Eilinel she …
⸤¶but in the …
⸤¶widowed of husband …
⸤¶a wraith of …
⸤¶methinks, it is …
⸤¶Now shalt thou …
⸤¶the land thou …
⸤¶thou shalt to …
⸤¶descend and seek …
⸤¶Thus Gorlim died …
⸤¶and cursed himself …
⸤¶and Barahir was …
⸤¶and all good …
⸤¶But Morgoth’s guile …
⸤¶nor wholly o’er …
⸤¶and some were …
⸤¶unmaking that which …
⸤¶Thus men believed …
⸤¶the fiendish phantom …
⸤¶the soul of …
⸤¶the lingering hope …
⸤¶that lived amid …
⸤¶yet Beren had …
⸤¶long hunted far …
⸤¶and benighted in …
⸤¶far from his …
⸤¶he felt a …
⸤¶upon his heart, …
⸤¶were bare and …
⸤¶no leaves they …
⸤¶sat thick as …
⸤¶and croaked, and …
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⸤¶let fall a …
⸤¶unseen entwined him …
⸤¶until worn out, …
⸤¶of stagnant pool …
⸤¶There saw he …
⸤¶far out upon …
⸤¶and grew to …
⸤¶that glided o’er …
⸤¶and coming slowly, …
⸤¶and sadly said: …
⸤¶traitor betrayed, now …
⸤¶but haste! For …
⸤¶upon thy father’s …
⸤¶your secret tryst, …
⸤¶and all the …
⸤¶that he had …
⸤¶Then Beren waking …
⸤¶his sword and …
⸤¶that cuts with …
⸤¶of autumn trees. …
⸤¶his heart afire …
⸤¶where Barahir his …
⸤¶he came too …
⸤¶he found the …
⸤¶a wooded island …
⸤¶and birds rose …
⸤¶no fen-fowl were …
⸤¶The raven and …
⸤¶sat in the …
⸤¶one croaked: ‘Ha! …
⸤¶and answered all: …
⸤¶There Beren buried …
⸤¶and piled a …
⸤¶and cursed the …
⸤¶but wept not, …
⸤¶Then over fen …
⸤¶he followed, till …
⸤¶upgushing hot from …
⸤¶he found the …
⸤¶the murderous soldiers …
⸤¶And one there …
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⸤¶he took from …
⸤¶‘This ring in …
⸤¶now mark ye, …
⸤¶Its like with …
⸤¶for this same …
⸤¶this robber fool, …
⸤¶a deed of …
⸤¶for Felagund. It …
⸤¶for Morgoth bade …
⸤¶and yet, methinks, …
⸤¶of weightier treasure …
⸤¶Such greed befits …
⸤¶and I am …
⸤¶the hand of …
⸤¶Yet as he …
⸤¶with riven heart …
⸤¶Thus Morgoth loved …
⸤¶should in his …
⸤¶that punished the …
⸤¶But Morgoth laughed …
⸤¶that Beren like …
⸤¶sprang madly from …
⸤¶amid that camp …
⸤¶and seized the …
⸤¶of wrath and …
⸤¶had fled his …
⸤¶was made of …
⸤¶could pierce, a …
⸤¶and he was …
⸤¶for in charméd …
⸤¶their hungry hunting …
⸤¶the way his …
⸤¶As fearless Beren …
⸤¶as man most …
⸤¶while Barahir yet …
⸤¶but sorrow now …
⸤¶to dark despair, …
⸤¶of sweetness, that …
⸤¶or shaft, or …
⸤¶and dreaded only …
⸤¶Danger he sought …
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⸤¶and thus escaped …
⸤¶and deeds of …
⸤¶whose whispered glory …
⸤¶and softly songs …
⸤¶of marvels he …
⸤¶alone, beleaguered, lost …
⸤¶by mist or …
⸤¶of the broad …
⸤¶that northward looked …
⸤¶he filled and …
⸤¶his comrades were …
⸤¶who failed him …
⸤¶with fur and …
⸤¶and many spirits, …
⸤¶in mountains old …
⸤¶do dwell and …
⸤¶Yet seldom well …
⸤¶and Morgoth was …
⸤¶than all the …
⸤¶recorded, and his …
⸤¶slow and surely …
⸤¶did hem and …
⸤¶must Beren flee …
⸤¶and lands he …
⸤¶by reeds bewailed …
⸤¶Beneath a heap …
⸤¶now crumble those …
⸤¶but Beren flees …
⸤¶one autumn night, …
⸤¶the leaguer of …
⸤¶he passes – …
⸤¶No more his …
⸤¶no more his …
⸤¶no more his …
⸤¶upon the heath …
⸤¶The moon that …
⸤¶upon the pines, …
⸤¶among the heather …
⸤¶found him no …
⸤¶about the North …
⸤¶in frosty airs, …
⸤¶that Men did …
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⸤¶were set behind …
⸤¶o’er land and …
⸤¶forsaken fen and …
⸤¶His face was …
⸤¶whence only evil …
⸤¶and only the …
⸤¶might cross the …
⸤¶Their northern slopes …
⸤¶with evil and …
⸤¶their southern faces …
⸤¶in rocky pinnacle …
⸤¶whose roots were …
⸤¶and washed with …
⸤¶There magic lurked …
⸤¶for far away …
⸤¶of searching eyes, …
⸤¶from dizzy tower …
⸤¶where only eagles …
⸤¶might grey and …
⸤¶Beleriand, Beleriand,¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶the borders of …