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The Lay of Leithian Recommenced (c)

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Volume: The Lays of Beleriand
Chapter: The Lay of Leithian Recommenced
Pages: 354–355
Paragraph count: 40
Token count: 245

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p354
⸤¶O elven-fairest Lúthien¶⸥⸤⸥
⸤¶what wonder moved
⸤¶That night what
⸤¶enchanted did thy
⸤¶Such marvel shall
⸤¶on Earth or
p355
⸤¶at dusk or
⸤¶or neath the
⸤¶On Neldoreth was
⸤¶the piping into
⸤¶for Daeron cast
⸤¶unheeded on the
⸤¶in wonder bound
⸤¶heart-broken in the
⸤¶And still she
⸤¶as light returning
⸤¶upsoaring from the
⸤¶when suddenly there
⸤¶dull tread of
⸤¶and from the
⸤¶of the bright
⸤¶with hands agrope,
⸤¶or blind, and
⸤¶under the moon
⸤¶bended and darkling.
⸤¶as lark falls
⸤¶the song of
⸤¶but Daeron from
⸤¶awoke to fear,
⸤¶‘Flee Lúthien, ah
⸤¶An evil walks
⸤¶Then forth he
⸤¶ever calling her
⸤¶until far off
⸤¶‘Ah flee, ah
⸤¶But silent stood
⸤¶unmoved, who never
⸤¶as slender moonlit
⸤¶white and windless
⸤¶waiting¶⸥⸤⸥