Song of Durin

Song of Durin Lyrics

Song Song of Durin
Artist The Tolkien Ensemble
Album The Complete Songs & Poems
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[00:02.93] The world was young, the mountains green ,
[00:09.67] No stain yet on the moon was seen,
[00:18.81] No words were laid on stream or stone
[00:27.56] When Durin woke and walked alone.
[00:37.82] He named the nameless hills and dells;
[00:47.26] He drank from yet untasted wells;
[00:55.84] He looked and saw in Mirrormere,
[01:04.17] And saw a crown of stars appear,
[01:15.14] As gems upon a sliver thread,
[01:20.75] Above the shadow of his head.
[01:29.24] The world was fair, the mountains tall ,
[01:36.62] In Elder Days before the fall
[01:45.02] Of might kings in Nargothrond
[01:53.56] And Gondolin, who was now beyond
[02:02.99] The Western Sea have passed away:
[02:08.51] The world was fair in Durin's Day
[02:21.50] A king he was on the carven throne
[02:29.79] In many-pillared halls of stone
[02:38.07] With golden roof and silver floor
[02:46.26] and runs of power upon the door
[02:54.73] The light of sun and star and moon
[03:03.14] In shining lamps of crystal hewn
[03:11.41] Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
[03:19.77] There shone for ever fair and bright
[03:43.20] There hammers on the anvil smote,
[03:45.93] There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
[03:49.90] There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
[03:53.35] The deliver mined, the mason built.
[03:56.57] There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
[03:59.72] And metal wrought like fishes mail,
[04:03.72] Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
[04:06.97] And shining spearswere laid in hoard
[04:14.49] Unwearied then were Durin's folk
[04:24.60] Beneath the mountains music woke:
[04:33.62] The harps harped, the minstrels sang,
[04:42.36] and at the gates the trumpets rang.
[04:59.03] The world is grey, the mountains old,
[05:07.82] The forge'fire is ashen-cold;
[05:17.33] No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
[05:26.92] The darkness dwells in Durin'halls;
[05:39.20] The shadow lies upon his tomb
[05:48.78] In Moria, in Khazad-d?m.
[05:58.43] But still the sunken stars appear
[06:09.09] In dark and windless Mirrormere;
[06:23.01] There lies his crown in water deep,
[06:28.84] Till Durin wakes again from sleep.
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