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| '''''Kortirion among the Trees''''' is a poem by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. | | '''''Kortirion among the Trees''''' is a poem by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. |
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| :''O fading town upon an inland hill''
| | The poem was published in ''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]''. |
| :''Old shadows linger in thine ancient gate''
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| :''Thy robe is grey thine old heart now is still''
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| :''Thy towers silent in the mist await''
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| :''Their crumbling end while through the storeyed elms''
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| :''The Gliding Water leaves these inland realms''
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| :''And slips between long meadows to the [[Belegaer|Sea]]''
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| :''Still bearing downward over murmurous falls''
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| :''One day and then another to the Sea''
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| :''And slowly thither many years have gone''
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| :''Since first the [[Elves]] here built Kortirion''
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| :''O climbing town upon thy windy hill''
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| :''With winding streets and alleys shady-walled''
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| :''Where now untamed the peacocks pace in drill''
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| :''Majestic sapphirine and emerald''
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| :''Amid the girdle of this sleeping land''
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| :''Where silver falls the rain and gleaming stand''
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| :''The whispering host of old deep-rooted trees''
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| :''That cast long shadows in many a bygone noon''
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| :''And murmured many centuries in the breeze''
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| :''Thou art the city of the Land of Elms''
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| :''[[Alalminórë]] in the Fairy Realms''
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| :''Sing of thy trees Kortirion again''
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| :''The beech on hill the willow in the fen''
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| :''The rainy poplars and the frowning yews''
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| :''Within thine agéd courts that muse''
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| :''In sombre splendour all the day''
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| :''Until the twinkle of the early stars''
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| :''Comes glinting through their sable bars''
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| :''And the white moon climbing up the sky''
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| :''Looks down upon the ghosts of trees that die''
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| :''Slowly and silently from day to day''
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| :''O [[Tol Eressëa|Lonely Isle]] here was thy citadel''
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| :''Ere bannered summer from his fortress fell''
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| :''Then full of music were thine elms''
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| :''Green was their armour green their helms''
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| :''The Lords and Kings of all thy trees''
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| :''Sing then of elms renowned Kortirion''
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| :''That under summer crowds their full sail on''
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| :''And shrouded stand like masts of verdurous ships''
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| :''A fleet of galleons that proudly slips''
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| :''Across long sunlit seas.''
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| :''Thou art the inmost province of the fading isle''
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| :''Where linger yet the Lonely Companies''
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| :''Still undespairing here they slowly file''
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| :''Along thy paths with solemn harmonies''
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| :''The holy people of an elder day''
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| :''Immortal Elves that singing fair and fey''
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| :''Of vanished things that were and could be yet''
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| :''Pass like a wind among the rustling trees''
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| :''A wave of bowing grass and we forget''
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| :''Their tender voices like wind-shaken bells''
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| :''Of flowers their gleaming hair like golden asphodels''
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| :''Once Spring was here with joy and all was fair''
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| :''Among the trees but Summer drowsing by the stream''
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| :''Heard trembling in her heart the secret player''
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| :''Pipe out beyond the tangle of her forest dream''
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| :''The long-drawn tune that elvish voices made''
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| :''Foreseeing Winter through the leafy glade''
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| :''The late flowers nodding on the ruined walls''
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| :''Then stooping heard afar that haunting flute''
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| :''Beyond the sunny aisles and tree-propped halls''
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| :''For thin and clear and cold the note''
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| :''As strand of silver glass remote''
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| :''Then all thy trees Kortirion were bent''
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| :''And shook with sudden whispering lament''
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| :''For passing were the days and doomed the nights''
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| :''When flitting ghost-moths danced as satellites''
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| :''Round tapers in the moveless air''
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| :''And doomed already were the radiant dawns
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| :''The fingered sunlight drawn across the lawns''
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| :''The odour and the slumbrous noise of meads''
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| :''Where all the sorrel flowers and pluméd weeds''
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| :''Go down before the scyther’s share''
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| :''When cool October robed her dewy furze''
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| :''In netted sheen of gold-shot gossamers''
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| :''Then the wide-umbraged elms began to fail''
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| :''Their mourning multitude of leaves grew pale''
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| :''Seeing afar the icy spears''
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| :''Of Winter marching blue behind the sun''
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| :''Of bright All-Hallows. Then their hour was done''
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| :''And wanly borne on wings of amber pale''
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| :''They beat the wide airs of the fading vale''
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| :''And flew like birds across the misty meres''
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| :''This is the season dearest to the heart''
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| :''And time most fitting to the ancient town''
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| :''With waning musics sweet that slow depart''
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| :''Winding with echoed sadness faintly down''
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| :''The paths of stranded mist. O gentle time''
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| :''When the late mornings are begemmed with rime''
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| :''And early shadows fold the distant woods!''
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| :''The Elves go silent by their shining hair''
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| :''They cloak in twilight under secret hoods''
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| :''Of grey and filmy purple and long bands''
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| :''Of frosted starlight sewn by silver hands''
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| :''And oft they dance beneath the roofless sky''
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| :''When naked elms entwine in branching lace''
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| :''[[The Seven Stars]] and through the boughs the eye''
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| :''Stares golden-beaming in the round moon’s face''
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| :''O holy Elves and fair immortal Folk''
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| :''You sing then ancient songs that once awoke''
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| :''Under primeval stars before the Dawn''
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| :''You whirl then dancing with the eddying wind''
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| :''As once you danced upon the shimmering lawn''
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| :''In Elvenhome before we were before''
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| :''You crossed wide seas unto this mortal shore''
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| :''Now are thy trees old grey Kortirion''
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| :''Through pallid mists seen rising tall and wan''
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| :''Like vessels floating vague and drifting far''
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| :''Down opal seas beyond the shadowy bar''
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| :''Of cloudy ports forlorn''
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| :''Leaving behind for ever havens loud''
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| :''Wherein their crews a while held feasting proud''
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| :''And lordly ease they now like windy ghosts''
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| :''Are wafted by slow airs to windy coasts''
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| :''And the glimmering sadly down the tide are borne''
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| :''Bare are thy trees become Kortirion''
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| :''The rotted rainment from their bones is gone''
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| :''The seven candles of the [[Silver Wain]]''
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| :''Like lighted tapers in a darkened fane''
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| :''Now flare above the fallen year''
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| :''Through court and street now cold and empty lie''
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| :''And Elves dance seldom neath the barren sky''
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| :''Yet under the white moon there is a sound''
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| :''Of buried music still beneath the ground''
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| :''When winter comes I would meet winter here''
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| :''I would not seek the desert or red palaces''
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| :''Where reigns the sun nor tail to magic isles''
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| :''Nor climb the hoary mountains’ stony terraces''
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| :''And tolling faintly over windy miles''
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| :''To my heart calls no distant bell that rings''
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| :''In crowded cities of the Earthly Kings''
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| :''For here is heartsease still and deep content''
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| :''Though sadness haunt the Land of withered Elms''
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| :''And making music still in sweet lament''
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| :''The Elves here holy and immortal dwell''
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| :''And on the stones and trees there lies a spell.''
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| ::— [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
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