He sees no stars who does not see them first of living silver made that sudden burst to flame like flowers beneath the ancient song, whose very echo after-music long has since pursued. There is no firmament, only a void, unless a jewelled tent myth-woven and elf-patterned; and no earth, unless the mother's womb whence all have birth.
[quote=J.R.R. Tolkien, “Mythopoeia”]He sees no stars who does not see them first
of living silver made that sudden burst
to flame like flowers beneath the ancient song,
whose very echo after-music long
has since pursued. There is no firmament,
only a void, unless a jewelled tent
myth-woven and elf-patterned; and no earth,
unless the mother's womb whence all have birth.[/quote]
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><blockquote class="bb-quote">He sees no stars who does not see them first<br>of living silver made that sudden burst<br>to flame like flowers beneath the ancient song,<br>whose very echo after-music long<br>has since pursued. There is no firmament,<br>only a void, unless a jewelled tent<br>myth-woven and elf-patterned; and no earth,<br>unless the mother's womb whence all have birth.<footer>J.R.R. Tolkien, “Mythopoeia”</footer></blockquote></div>
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