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[00:29.85]The leaves were long, the grass was green,
[00:34.09]The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
[00:38.45]And in the glade a light was seen
[00:43.18]Of stars in shadow shimmering.
[00:47.71]Tinúviel was dancing there
[00:52.39]To music of a pipe unseen,
[00:56.93]And light of stars was in her hair,
[01:01.47]And in her raiment glimmering.
[01:14.44]There Beren came from mountains cold,
[01:18.77]And lost he wandered under leaves,
[01:23.42]And where the Elven-river rolled
[01:27.89]He walked alone and sorrowing.
[01:32.46]He peered between the hemlock-leaves
[01:37.03]And saw in wander flowers of gold
[01:41.76]Upon her mantle and her sleeves,
[01:46.33]And her hair like shadow following.
[01:59.06]Enchantment healed his weary feet
[02:03.82]That over hills were doomed to roam;
[02:08.39]And forth he hastened, strong and fleet,
[02:12.68]And grasped at moonbeams glistening.
[02:17.12]Through woven woods in Elvenhome
[02:21.67]She tightly fled on dancing feet,
[02:26.20]And left him lonely still to roam
[02:30.83]In the silent forest listening.
[02:45.86]He heard there oft the flying sound
[02:49.72]Of feet as light as linden-leaves,
[02:54.24]Or music welling underground,
[02:58.77]In hidden hollows quavering.
[03:02.95]Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
[03:07.38]And one by one with sighing sound
[03:12.01]Whispering fell the beechen leaves
[03:16.62]In the wintry woodland wavering.
[03:29.18]He sought her ever, wandering far
[03:33.45]Where leaves of years were thickly strewn,
[03:37.92]By light of moon and ray of star
[03:42.35]In frosty heavens shivering.
[03:46.63]Her mantle glinted in the moon,
[03:51.15]As on a hill-top high and far
[03:55.50]She danced, and at her feet was strewn
[04:00.72]A mist of silver quivering.
[04:22.93]When winter passed, she came again,
[04:26.70]And her song released the sudden spring,
[04:31.13]Like rising lark, and falling rain,
[04:35.05]And melting water bubbling.
[04:39.23]He saw the elven-flowers spring
[04:43.65]About her feet, and healed again
[04:48.11]He longed by her to dance and sing
[04:52.84]Upon the grass untroubling.
[05:07.46]Again she fled, but swift he came.
[05:11.34]Tinúviel! Tinúviel!
[05:16.07]He called her by her elvish name;
[05:20.09]And there she halted listening.
[05:24.59]One moment stood she, and a spell
[05:29.06]His voice laid on her: Beren came,
[05:33.68]And doom fell on Tinúviel
[05:38.67]That in his arms lay glistening.
[05:51.15]As Beren looked into her eyes
[05:55.23]Within the shadows of her hair,
[05:59.41]The trembling starlight of the skies
[06:03.55]He saw there mirrored shimmering.
[06:07.94]Tinúviel the elven-fair,
[06:12.88]Immortal maiden elven-wise,
[06:17.55]About him cast her shadowy hair
[06:22.45]And arms like silver glimmering.
[06:36.90]Long was the way that fate them bore,
[06:41.07]O'er stony mountains cold and grey,
[06:45.25]Through halls of iron and darkling door,
[06:49.64]And woods of nightshade morrowless.
[06:53.93]The Sundering Seas between them lay,
[06:58.30]And yet at last they met once more,
[07:02.98]And long ago they passed away
[07:08.01]In the forest singing sorrowless.