One for his joy and youth in Doriath
OF DORIATH
Did ever sing the yellow-throated lark So like the stars in tender dreams of night? For there beneath the elder-bowers dark Sweet limbs of her that pluck from light to light Its hues to band her long and living hair-- And stars upon her locks of shadow lay. And words shall bloom beneath the hemlocks fair Their will my lyre-strings and lips obey: Like vowelléd music falling quick and oft With woodnotes wild that minds cannot command; They follow her, whose hallowed footfalls soft Do touch like breaths upon the eager land. O Doriath, a splendid ever-spring, That flowers forth when nightingales do sing!
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