Song of Durin

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A poem by J.R.R. Tolkien
Music by Clamavi de Profundis

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The world was

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young, the moun tains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were

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laid on stream or stone when Du rin woke and walked a lone. He named the name less

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hills and dells; He drank from yet un tas ted wells; He stooped and looked in

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Mir ror me re and saw a crown of stars ap pear As gems u pon a

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sil ver thread, A bove the sha dows of his head. The world was fair, the moun tains

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tall, in El der days, be fore the fall of migh ty kings in Nar go thrond and Gon do

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lin who now be yond the Wes tern 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 gol den roof and sil ver floor and runes of power u pon the door, the

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light of sun and star and moon in shi ning lamps of cry stal hewn un dim med by cloud or

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shade of night there shone fo re ver fair and bright.

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