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She let her flying raiment sweep,<br />
enmeshed with woven spells of sleep,<br />
as round the dark void she ranged and reeled.<br />
From wall to wall she turned and wheeled<br />
in dance such as never Elf nor fay<br />
before devised, nor since that day;<br />
than swallow swifter, than flittermouse<br />
in dying light round darkened house<br />
more silken-soft, more strange and fair<br />
than sylphine maidens of the Air<br />
whose wings in Varda’s heavenly hall<br />
in rhythmic movement beat and fall.<br />
Down crumpled Orc, and Balrog proud;<br />
all eyes were quenched, all heads were bowed;<br />
the fires of heart and maw were stilled,<br />
and ever like a bird she thrilled<br />
above a lightless world forlorn<br />
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