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slim fingers flute and viol seize<br />
beneath the moon, and one more fair<br />
than all there be or ever were<br />
upon a lonely knoll of stone<br />
in shimmering raiment danced alone.<br />
Then in his dream it seemed he sang,<br />
and loud and fierce his chanting rang,<br />
old songs of battle in the North,<br />
of breathless deeds, of marching forth<br />
to dare uncounted odds and break<br />
great powers, and towers, and strong walls shake;<br />
and over all the silver fire<br />
that once Men named the Burning Briar,<br />
the Seven Stars that Varda set<br />
about the North, were burning yet,<br />
a light in darkness, hope in woe,<br />
the emblem vast of Morgoth’s foe.<br />
‘Huan, Huan! I hear a song<br />
far under welling, far but strong<br />
a song that Beren bore aloft.<br />
I hear his voice, I have heard it oft<br />
in dream and wandering.’ Whispering low<br />
thus Lúthien spake. On the bridge of woe<br />
in mantle wrapped at dead of night<br />
she sat and sang, and to its height<br />
and to its depth the Wizard’s Isle,<br />
rock upon rock and pile on pile,<br />
trembling echoed. The werewolves howled,<br />
and Huan hidden lay and growled<br />
watchful listening in the dark,<br />
waiting for battle cruel and stark.<br />
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