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| − | '''Kortirion among the Trees''' is a poem by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. | + | {{stub}} |
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| | + | '''''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 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'' | + | [[Category:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien]] |
| − | :''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 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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