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user-inactivated  ·  3737 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today Is National Poetry Day! Let's Share Favorite Poems.

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    Farewell sweet earth and northern sky,

    for ever blest, since here did lie

    and here with lissome limbs did run

    beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun,

    Lúthien Tinúviel

    more fair then mortal tongue can tell.

    Though all to ruin fell the world

    and were dissolved and backwards hurled

    unmade into the old abyss,

    yet were its making good, for this---

    the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea---

    that Lúthien for a time should be.

That is from, of course, the poet who a certain someone referred to yesterday as "half the writer George RR Martin is."