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Volume:
The Lays of Beleriand
Pages: 248–255
Paragraph count:
291
Token count:
1,881
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IX …
⸤¶In Wizard’s Isle …
⸤¶enmeshed and tortured …
⸤¶cold, evil, doorless, …
⸤¶and blank-eyed stared …
⸤¶two comrades. Now …
⸤¶The others lived …
⸤¶their broken bones …
⸤¶how ten had …
⸤¶To Felagund then …
⸤¶‘'Twere little loss …
⸤¶and I am …
⸤¶and thus, perchance, …
⸤¶thy life to …
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⸤¶from thine old …
⸤¶hast thou endured …
⸤¶‘A! Beren, Beren …
⸤¶that promises of …
⸤¶are frail as …
⸤¶of pain shall …
⸤¶whether he learn …
⸤¶with Thû’s consent. …
⸤¶yet deeper of …
⸤¶knew he that …
⸤¶and Felagund were …
⸤¶and even worse …
⸤¶the dreadful errand …
⸤¶A devil’s laugh …
⸤¶within their pit. …
⸤¶I hear you …
⸤¶‘'Twere little loss …
⸤¶the outlaw mortal. …
⸤¶the Elf undying, …
⸤¶no man could …
⸤¶Perchance, when what …
⸤¶of dreadful anguish …
⸤¶their king to …
⸤¶with gold and …
⸤¶or maybe Celegorm …
⸤¶will deem a …
⸤¶and crown and …
⸤¶Perchance, the errand …
⸤¶ere all is …
⸤¶The wolf is …
⸤¶no more need …
⸤¶The slow time …
⸤¶two eyes there …
⸤¶Beren, silent, as …
⸤¶beyond his mortal …
⸤¶Lo! sudden there …
⸤¶of chains that …
⸤¶of meshes broken. …
⸤¶upon the wolvish …
⸤¶in shadow faithful …
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⸤¶careless of fang …
⸤¶There in the …
⸤¶remorseless, snarling, to …
⸤¶teeth in flesh, …
⸤¶fingers locked in …
⸤¶spurning Beren who …
⸤¶heard the werewolf …
⸤¶Then a voice …
⸤¶On earth I …
⸤¶friend and comrade, …
⸤¶My heart is …
⸤¶Here all my …
⸤¶to break my …
⸤¶of poisoned teeth …
⸤¶I now must …
⸤¶neath Timbrenting in …
⸤¶where drink the …
⸤¶upon the shining …
⸤¶as elvish singers …
⸤¶There Beren lies. …
⸤¶his despair no …
⸤¶waiting for footsteps, …
⸤¶Silences profounder than …
⸤¶of long-forgotten kings, …
⸤¶and sands uncounted …
⸤¶and buried everlasting-deep,¶⸥⸤⸥ …
⸤¶slow and unbroken …
⸤¶The silences were …
⸤¶to silver fragments. …
⸤¶a voice in …
⸤¶enchanted hill, and …
⸤¶and powers of …
⸤¶He felt about …
⸤¶of many stars, …
⸤¶were rustlings and …
⸤¶the nightingales were …
⸤¶slim fingers flute …
⸤¶beneath the moon, …
⸤¶than all there …
⸤¶upon a lonely …
⸤¶in shimmering raiment …
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⸤¶Then in his …
⸤¶and loud and …
⸤¶old songs of …
⸤¶of breathless deeds, …
⸤¶to dare uncounted …
⸤¶great powers, and …
⸤¶and over all …
⸤¶that once Men …
⸤¶the Seven Stars …
⸤¶about the North, …
⸤¶a light in …
⸤¶the emblem vast …
⸤¶‘Huan, Huan! I …
⸤¶far under welling, …
⸤¶a song that …
⸤¶I hear his …
⸤¶in dream and …
⸤¶thus Lúthien spake. …
⸤¶in mantle wrapped …
⸤¶she sat and …
⸤¶and to its …
⸤¶rock upon rock …
⸤¶trembling echoed. The …
⸤¶and Huan hidden …
⸤¶watchful listening in …
⸤¶waiting for battle …
⸤¶Thû heard that …
⸤¶wrapped in his …
⸤¶in his high …
⸤¶and smiled, and …
⸤¶‘A! little Lúthien! …
⸤¶the foolish fly …
⸤¶Morgoth! a great …
⸤¶to me thou …
⸤¶this jewel is …
⸤¶and forth his …
⸤¶Still Lúthien sang. …
⸤¶with bloodred tongue …
⸤¶stole on the …
⸤¶with trembling limbs …
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⸤¶The creeping shape …
⸤¶and gasped, and …
⸤¶And still they …
⸤¶and each was …
⸤¶returned with padding …
⸤¶that a shadow …
⸤¶at the bridge’s …
⸤¶the shuddering waters …
⸤¶o’er the grey …
⸤¶A mightier shadow …
⸤¶the narrow bridge, …
⸤¶an awful werewolf …
⸤¶pale Draugluin, the …
⸤¶of wolves and …
⸤¶that fed on …
⸤¶beneath the chair …
⸤¶No more in …
⸤¶Howling and baying …
⸤¶till back by …
⸤¶to die the …
⸤¶‘Huan is there’ …
⸤¶and Thû was …
⸤¶‘Before the mightiest …
⸤¶before the mightiest …
⸤¶so thought he …
⸤¶how fate long …
⸤¶Now there came …
⸤¶into the night …
⸤¶dank with poison, …
⸤¶wolvish, ravenous; but …
⸤¶a light therein …
⸤¶than ever wolvish …
⸤¶More huge were …
⸤¶its fangs more …
⸤¶with venom, torment, …
⸤¶The deadly vapour …
⸤¶swept on before …
⸤¶the song of …
⸤¶are dimmed and …
⸤¶cold and poisonous …
⸤¶Thus came Thû, …
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⸤¶than e’er was …
⸤¶to the burning …
⸤¶in mortal lands …
⸤¶Sudden he sprang, …
⸤¶aside in shadow. …
⸤¶to Lúthien lying …
⸤¶To her drowning …
⸤¶of his foul …
⸤¶dizzily she spake …
⸤¶her mantle brushed …
⸤¶He stumbled staggering …
⸤¶Out leaped Huan. …
⸤¶Beneath the stars …
⸤¶the cry of …
⸤¶the tongue of …
⸤¶Backward and forth …
⸤¶feinting to flee, …
⸤¶and bit and …
⸤¶Then suddenly Huan …
⸤¶his ghastly foe; …
⸤¶choking his life. …
⸤¶From shape to …
⸤¶from monster to …
⸤¶Thû changes, but …
⸤¶he cannot shake, …
⸤¶No wizardry, nor …
⸤¶no fang, nor …
⸤¶could harm that …
⸤¶had hunted once …
⸤¶Nigh the foul …
⸤¶and bred of …
⸤¶from its dark …
⸤¶and shivering looked …
⸤¶‘O demon dark, …
⸤¶of foulness wrought, …
⸤¶here shalt thou …
⸤¶quaking back to …
⸤¶his scorn and …
⸤¶thee he will …
⸤¶of groaning earth, …
⸤¶everlastingly thy naked …
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⸤¶shall wail and …
⸤¶unless the keys …
⸤¶of thy black …
⸤¶that bindeth stone …
⸤¶and speak the …
⸤¶With gasping breath …
⸤¶he spake, and …
⸤¶and vanquished betrayed …
⸤¶Lo! by the …
⸤¶like stars descended …
⸤¶to burn and …
⸤¶There wide her …
⸤¶and called aloud …
⸤¶as still at …
⸤¶long elvish trumpets …
⸤¶echo, when all …
⸤¶The dawn peered …
⸤¶their grey heads …
⸤¶The hill trembled; …
⸤¶crumbled, and all …
⸤¶the rocks yawned …
⸤¶and Sirion spumed …
⸤¶Like ghosts the …
⸤¶hooting in the …
⸤¶went skimming dark …
⸤¶shrieking thinly to …
⸤¶in Deadly Nightshade’s …
⸤¶The wolves whimpering …
⸤¶like dusky shadows. …
⸤¶pale forms and …
⸤¶crawling, and shielding …
⸤¶the captives in …
⸤¶from dolour long …
⸤¶beyond all hope …
⸤¶A vampire shape …
⸤¶screeching leaped from …
⸤¶its dark blood …
⸤¶and Huan neath …
⸤¶a wolvish corpse …
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⸤¶to Taur-na-Fuin, a …
⸤¶and darker stronghold …
⸤¶The captives came …
⸤¶their piteous cries …
⸤¶But Lúthien anxious-gazing …
⸤¶Beren comes not. …
⸤¶‘Huan, Huan, among …
⸤¶must we then …
⸤¶for love of …
⸤¶Then side by …
⸤¶o’er Sirion they …
⸤¶unmoving they him …
⸤¶by Felagund, and …
⸤¶to see what …
⸤¶‘A! Beren, Beren!’ …
⸤¶‘almost too late …
⸤¶Alas! that here …
⸤¶the noblest of …
⸤¶in vain thy …
⸤¶Alas! in tears …
⸤¶who once found …
⸤¶Her voice such …
⸤¶he raised his …
⸤¶and felt his …
⸤¶for her that …
⸤¶‘O Lúthien, O …
⸤¶more fair than …
⸤¶O loveliest maid …
⸤¶what might of …
⸤¶to bring thee …
⸤¶O lissom limbs …
⸤¶O flower-entwinéd brows …
⸤¶O slender hands …
⸤¶She found his …
⸤¶just at the …