J.R.R. Tolkien - Of Beren and Lúthien lyrics

The leaves were long, the gra** was green The hemlock-umbels tall and fair And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmering Tinúviel was dancing there To music of a pipe unseen And light of stars was on her head And in her raiment glimmering There Beren came from mountains cold And lost, he wandered under leaves And where the Elven-river rolled He walked alone and sorrowing He peered between the hemlock-leaves And saw in wonder flowers of gold Upon her mantle and her sleeves Her hair like shadow following Enchantment healed his weary feet That over hills were doomed to roam And forth he hastened, strong and fleet And grasped at moonbeams glistening Through woven woods in Elvenhome She lightly fled with dancing feet And left him lonely still to roam In silent forest listening Tinúviel Tinúviel When winter pa**ed, she came again And her song released the sudden spring Like rising lark, and falling rain And melting water bubbling He saw the elven-flowers spring About her feet, and healed again He longed by her to dance and sing Upon the gra** untroubling Long was the way that fate them bore O'er stony mountains cold and grey Through halls of iron and darkling door And woods of nightshade morrowless The Sundering Seas between them lay And yet at last they met once more And long ago they pa**ed away In forest singing sorrowless