Dark Elf Reflects
I am stayed here for a while
This
gentle place
Where the river they call Teiglin
Flows past he
mighty oaks
Before joining the Sirion
On its journey to the
sea...
His tracks are clear to me
But I am stayed by the
Meres of Twilight
Comfortably wrapt in the mists
He had
departed back to his own folk, they said
The Shining One who I
first saw
I know not what drew me behind him
Like a tardy
shadow
He is gone back to his own
His errand is spent
Like
as not, I shall not see him again
Far I have come from the
Hidden Kingdom
To the very edge of the Girdle
What use is
there in return?
They think me simple, "the Tongueless One"
I heard all their speech
And though I speak it not, I
understand them
Better than they I
I could go home from here
These Meres remind me of that
Place of Awakening I have not
seen
For countless seasons
There are hard lands between
And
so much to be seen beyond that river that sings
I will stay
right here
Until from the singing I learn my road.