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[00:01.21]The world was young, the mountains green,
[00:10.11]No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
[00:19.32]No words were laid on stream or stone
[00:28.00]When Durin woke and walked alone.
[00:38.77]He named the nameless hills and dells;
[00:47.53]He drank from yet untasted wells;
[00:55.84]He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
[01:04.23]And saw a crown of stars appear,
[01:15.34]As gems upon a silver thread,
[01:20.87]Above the shadow of his head.
[01:29.12]The world was fair, the mountains tall,
[01:37.23]In Elder Days before the fall
[01:45.74]Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
[01:54.45]And Gondolin, who now beyond
[02:03.38]The Western Seas have passed away:
[02:08.87]The world was fair in Durin's Day.
[02:21.99]A king he was on carven throne
[02:30.26]In many-pillared halls of stone
[02:38.65]With golden roof and silver floor,
[02:46.96]And runes of power upon the door.
[02:55.69]The light of sun and star and moon
[03:03.66]In shining lamps of crystal hewn
[03:11.88]Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
[03:20.39]There shone for ever fair and bright.
[03:43.67]There hammer on the anvil smote,
[03:46.58]There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
[03:49.81]There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
[03:54.35]The delver mined, the mason built.
[03:56.95]There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
[03:59.33]And metal wrought like fishes' mail,
[04:04.20]Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
[04:07.52]And shining spears were laid in hoard.
[04:15.00]Unwearied then were Durin's folk
[04:24.05]Beneath the mountains music woke:
[04:32.99]The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
[04:41.60]And at the gates the trumpets rang.
[04:58.58]The world is grey, the mountains old,
[05:08.34]The forge's fire is ashen-cold
[05:17.81]No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
[05:27.10]The darkness dwells in Durin's halls
[05:39.32]The shadow lies upon his tomb
[05:49.18]In Moria, in Khazad-d?m.
[05:59.09]But still the sunken stars appear
[06:09.23]In dark and windless Mirrormere;
[06:24.13]There lies his crown in water deep,
[06:30.39]Till Durin wakes again from sleep.