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The Days of Durin

from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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J. R. R. Tolkin Music Bee

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The world was young, the moun tains green, No stain yet on the

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moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone, When Dur in woke and

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walked a lone. He named the name less hills and dells; He drank from yet un

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tast ed wells; He stooped and looked in Mir ror mere, and saw a crown of

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stars ap pear, As gems up on a sil ver thread, A bove the sha dow

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of his head. The world was fair, the moun tains tall, In El der Days be

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fore the fall Of might y kings in Nar go thrond And Gon do lin, Who

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now be yond The West ern Seas have passed a way: The world was fair in

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Du rin's Day. A king he was on car ven throne In ma ny- pil lared

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halls of stone With gold en roof and sil ver floor, And runes of pow'r up

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on the door. The light of sun and star and moon In shin ing lamps of

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crys tal hewn Un dimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ev er

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fair and bright, There ham mer on the an vil smote, There chis el clove, and

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grav er wrote; There forged was blade, and bound was hilt; The

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del ver mined, the mas on built. There ber yl, pearl, and op al pale, and

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met al wrought like fish es' mail, Buck ler and cors let, axe and sword, And

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shin ing spears were laid in hoard. Un wear ied then were Dur in's folk; Be

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neath the moun tains mus ic woke: The harp ers harped, the

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mins trels sang, And at the gates the trum pets rang. The world is grey, the

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moun tains old, The forge 's fire is ash en- cold; No harp is wrung, no

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ham mer falls: The dark ness dwells in Dur in's halls; The shad ow lies up

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on his tomb In Mo ri a, in Khaz ad- dûm. But still the sunk en

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stars ap pear In dark and wind less Mir ror mere; There lies his crown in

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wat er deep. Till Dur in wakes a gain from sleep.

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