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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 171–180
Paragraph count:
358
Token count:
2,275
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p171
III …
⸤¶There once, and …
⸤¶before the sun …
⸤¶were lit to …
⸤¶when first the …
⸤¶and shadowy shapes …
⸤¶beneath the dark …
⸤¶that hung above …
⸤¶the silences with …
⸤¶were shaken; the …
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⸤¶the birds of …
⸤¶the first to …
⸤¶the nightingales with …
⸤¶she fed, that …
⸤¶and dark and …
⸤¶beneath her silver …
⸤¶and down unto …
⸤¶She had wayward …
⸤¶from gardens of …
⸤¶the everlasting mountains …
⸤¶that look upon …
⸤¶and never wandered …
⸤¶and softly sang …
⸤¶Her voice it …
⸤¶and sudden singing …
⸤¶in that old …
⸤¶had all the …
⸤¶Yet all his …
⸤¶as old tales …
⸤¶on the last …
⸤¶where mighty ships …
⸤¶they made, and …
⸤¶The Gods them …
⸤¶and gardens fair, …
⸤¶together flow, and …
⸤¶But Thingol stayed, …
⸤¶one moment to …
⸤¶of that sweet …
⸤¶Enchanted moments such …
⸤¶from gardens of …
⸤¶where fountains play …
⸤¶do come, and …
⸤¶in mortal lands. …
⸤¶his people seek …
⸤¶while Thingol listens …
⸤¶There after but …
⸤¶he finds her …
⸤¶pale Melian with …
⸤¶upon a bed …
⸤¶There slumber and …
⸤¶He touched her …
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⸤¶was drowned in …
⸤¶and dark the …
⸤¶Thus Thingol sailed …
⸤¶but dwelt amid …
⸤¶and Melian he …
⸤¶whose voice was …
⸤¶the Valar drink …
⸤¶where flower blooms …
⸤¶but when she …
⸤¶and no flower …
⸤¶A king and …
⸤¶and Doriath was …
⸤¶and all the …
⸤¶and never found …
⸤¶the gleaming walls …
⸤¶by the grey …
⸤¶who never trod …
⸤¶where the towers …
⸤¶all these were …
⸤¶beneath the beech …
⸤¶In later days …
⸤¶fleeing the Gods, …
⸤¶and on the …
⸤¶and in the …
⸤¶founded and fortified, …
⸤¶the newborn race …
⸤¶unto his power, …
⸤¶his slaves, or …
⸤¶or scattered fastnesses …
⸤¶upraised upon his …
⸤¶and each one …
⸤¶in Doriath beyond …
⸤¶Thingol and deathless …
⸤¶whose magic yet …
⸤¶that cometh from …
⸤¶Here still was …
⸤¶and leaves were …
⸤¶and many marvels …
⸤¶In sunshine and …
⸤¶with silken robe …
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⸤¶the daughter of …
⸤¶now danced on …
⸤¶half elven-fair and …
⸤¶and when the …
⸤¶unseen but near …
⸤¶and in the …
⸤¶or seated on …
⸤¶Dairon the dark …
⸤¶played with bewildering …
⸤¶music for breaking …
⸤¶Such players have …
⸤¶thrice in all …
⸤¶Tinfang Gelion who …
⸤¶enchants on summer …
⸤¶and kindles the …
⸤¶and he who …
⸤¶forgotten beaches and …
⸤¶where western foam …
⸤¶Maglor whose voice …
⸤¶and Dairon, mightiest …
⸤¶Now it befell …
⸤¶upon a lawn …
⸤¶yet lay and …
⸤¶that Lúthien danced …
⸤¶The chestnuts on …
⸤¶their flowering candles, …
⸤¶there darkling stood …
⸤¶and pale beneath …
⸤¶there glimmered faint …
⸤¶of hemlocks like …
⸤¶the moths on …
⸤¶with tiny eyes …
⸤¶were fluttering softly, …
⸤¶crept out to …
⸤¶the little owls …
⸤¶the moon was …
⸤¶Her arms like …
⸤¶her long hair …
⸤¶her feet atwinkle …
⸤¶in misty mazes …
⸤¶and glowworms shimmered …
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⸤¶and moths in …
⸤¶above her head …
⸤¶and this the …
⸤¶uprisen slow, and …
⸤¶above the branches …
⸤¶Then clearly thrilled …
⸤¶with sudden ecstasy …
⸤¶a song of …
⸤¶and with her …
⸤¶to such bewildering …
⸤¶the moon hung …
⸤¶And this it …
⸤¶and this he …
⸤¶enchanted dumb, yet …
⸤¶of such a …
⸤¶that all his …
⸤¶her magic bound …
⸤¶and faint he …
⸤¶Forwandered, wayworn, gaunt …
⸤¶his body sick …
⸤¶grey in his …
⸤¶for those that …
⸤¶a price of …
⸤¶And now his …
⸤¶with a new …
⸤¶He gazed, and …
⸤¶within its cloudy …
⸤¶the silver moonbeams …
⸤¶between the leaves, …
⸤¶the tremulous starlight …
⸤¶was caught and …
⸤¶Then all his …
⸤¶the hunger and …
⸤¶the awful mountains’ …
⸤¶with blood of …
⸤¶only a land …
⸤¶in dark ravines …
⸤¶there mighty spiders …
⸤¶old creatures foul …
⸤¶that span their …
⸤¶and filled it …
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⸤¶and there they …
⸤¶lay white beneath …
⸤¶now all these …
⸤¶faded from mind. …
⸤¶falling from pineclad …
⸤¶he heard, those …
⸤¶that bittersweet he …
⸤¶his mind with …
⸤¶He recked not …
⸤¶the paths demented …
⸤¶endlessly … and …
⸤¶horizons stretched before …
⸤¶as each blue …
⸤¶was climbed, and …
⸤¶battle with creatures …
⸤¶and monsters in …
⸤¶long watches in …
⸤¶while evil shapes …
⸤¶in clustered eyes …
⸤¶beneath his tree …
⸤¶the price he …
⸤¶to that pale …
⸤¶to those clear …
⸤¶the hearts-ease and …
⸤¶Lo! all forgetting …
⸤¶unheeding toward the …
⸤¶by love and …
⸤¶his feet from …
⸤¶within his heart, …
⸤¶on themes unthought-of …
⸤¶his soul with …
⸤¶a shadow in …
⸤¶and Dairon’s flute …
⸤¶as lark before …
⸤¶as grasshopper within …
⸤¶listening for heavy …
⸤¶‘Flee, Lúthien!’, and …
⸤¶from hiding Dairon …
⸤¶‘A stranger walks …
⸤¶But Lúthien would …
⸤¶fear had she …
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⸤¶till fear then …
⸤¶seeing that shape …
⸤¶and shadow long …
⸤¶Then sudden she …
⸤¶in dark oblivion, …
⸤¶in hurrying clouds, …
⸤¶among the hemlocks …
⸤¶under a mighty …
⸤¶all long and …
⸤¶upheld an hundred …
⸤¶and her white …
⸤¶her raiment pale, …
⸤¶the wild white …
⸤¶all lay like …
⸤¶in gleaming pools …
⸤¶Then stared he …
⸤¶at silent trees, …
⸤¶he blindly groped …
⸤¶to the dark …
⸤¶and, while she …
⸤¶touched her soft …
⸤¶Like startled moth …
⸤¶in sunless nook …
⸤¶she darted swift, …
⸤¶with cunning that …
⸤¶about the trunks …
⸤¶a path fantastic. …
⸤¶enchanted, wildered and …
⸤¶Beren came blundering, …
⸤¶Esgalduin the elven-stream,¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶in which amid …
⸤¶the stars, flowed …
⸤¶Some secret way …
⸤¶passed over and …
⸤¶and left him …
⸤¶‘Darkly the sundering …
⸤¶To this my …
⸤¶a hunger and …
⸤¶enchanted waters pitiless.’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶A summer waned, …
⸤¶and Beren in …
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⸤¶as wild and …
⸤¶that sudden wakes …
⸤¶and flits from …
⸤¶the brightness of …
⸤¶all stealthy movements …
⸤¶The murmurous warmth …
⸤¶the hum of …
⸤¶of many a …
⸤¶of sudden rain …
⸤¶the windy tide …
⸤¶the creaking of …
⸤¶but not the …
⸤¶brought joy or …
⸤¶a wanderer dumb …
⸤¶who sought unceasing …
⸤¶to hear and …
⸤¶a song more …
⸤¶a wonder in …
⸤¶An autumn waned, …
⸤¶the withered leaves …
⸤¶the beeches bare …
⸤¶and red their …
⸤¶From cavern pale …
⸤¶the white mists …
⸤¶to hide the …
⸤¶all the grey …
⸤¶By dawn and …
⸤¶by noon and …
⸤¶nor hears a …
⸤¶on sodden leaves …
⸤¶The wind of …
⸤¶the misty veil …
⸤¶The wind dies; …
⸤¶leap in the …
⸤¶whose light comes …
⸤¶through domes of …
⸤¶A sparkle through …
⸤¶a piercing glint …
⸤¶and there she …
⸤¶upon a treeless …
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⸤¶Her mantle blue …
⸤¶caught all the …
⸤¶She shone with …
⸤¶as dancing down …
⸤¶and passed his …
⸤¶a glimmer as …
⸤¶And snowdrops sprang …
⸤¶and one bird, …
⸤¶shrilled as she …
⸤¶A frozen brook …
⸤¶awoke and laughed; …
⸤¶still bound enchanted …
⸤¶Her starlight faded …
⸤¶closed o’er the …
⸤¶Thereafter on a …
⸤¶he saw far …
⸤¶of shining limb …
⸤¶often and oft …
⸤¶and Dairon’s pipe …
⸤¶and soft she …
⸤¶Then nigh he …
⸤¶and heartache mingled …
⸤¶A night there …
⸤¶then all alone …
⸤¶and danced until …
⸤¶and chanted some …
⸤¶that stirred him, …
⸤¶the bonds that …
⸤¶to madness sweet …
⸤¶He flung his …
⸤¶and out he …
⸤¶enchanted, with enchanted …
⸤¶He sped towards …
⸤¶the lissom limbs, …
⸤¶he leapt upon …
⸤¶his arms with …
⸤¶his arms were …
⸤¶away, away her …
⸤¶But as she …
⸤¶and called her …
⸤¶of nightingales in …
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⸤¶that all the …
⸤¶‘Tinúviel! Tinúviel!’¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶And clear his …
⸤¶its echoes wove …
⸤¶‘Tinúviel! Tinúviel!’ ¶⸥⸤740⸥ …
⸤¶His voice such …
⸤¶one moment stood …
⸤¶one moment only; …
⸤¶he leaped towards …
⸤¶and caught and …
⸤¶As love there …
⸤¶the starlight trembled …
⸤¶A! Lúthien! A! …
⸤¶more fair than …
⸤¶O! loveliest maid …
⸤¶what madness does …
⸤¶A! lissom limbs …
⸤¶and chaplet of …
⸤¶O! starry diadem …
⸤¶pale hands beneath …
⸤¶She left his …
⸤¶just at the …