"GL4" - читать интересную книгу автора (vol03)

A king there was in days of old:
ere Men yet walked upon the mould
his power was reared in caverns' shade,
his hand was over glen and glade.
Of leaves his crown, his mantle green,
his silver lances long and keen;
the starlight in his shield was caught,
ere moon was made or sun was wrought.
In after-days, when to the shore
of Middle-earth from Valinor 10
the Elven-hosts in might returned,
and banners flew and beacons burned,
when kings of Eldamar went by
in strength of war, beneath the sky
then still his silver trumpets blew 15
when sun was young and moon was new.
Afar then in Beleriand,
in Doriath's beleaguered land,
King Thingol sat on guarded throne
in many-pillared halls of stone: 20
there beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
and metal wrought like fishes' mail,
buckler and corslet, axe-and sword,
and gleaming spears were laid in hoard:
all these he had and counted small, 25
for dearer than all wealth in hall,
and fairer than are born to-Men,
a daughter had he, Luthien.

OF LUTHIEN THE BELOVED.

Such lissom limbs no more shall run
on the green earth beneath the sun; 30

so fair a maid no more shall be
from dawn to dusk, from sun to sea.
Her robe was blue as summer skies,
but grey as evening were her eyes;
her mantle sewn with lilies fair, 35
but dark as shadow was her hair.
Her feet were swift as bird on wing,
her laughter merry as the spring;
the slender willow, the bowing reed,
the fragrance of a flowering mead, 40
the light upon the leaves of trees,
the voice of water, more then these
her beauty was and blissfulness,
her glory and her loveliness.