O fading town upon an,
An island hill, old shadows,
Shall linger in thine ancient,
The thine ancient gate...
Thy robe is grey, thine old heart,
Now is still, thy towers silent,
In the mist await their crumbling,
Their crumbling end while through...
The storeyed elms the gliding,
Black water leaves these inland realms,
And slips between long meadows,
To the Sea, still bearing downward...
Over murmurous falls,
One day and then another to the Sea,
And slowly thither many years... have gone.
All... thy trees, Kortirion, were bent,
And shook, with sudden whispering lament:
For passing, were the days, and doomed, the nights
When flittering, ghost-moths (danced)
Round tapers in the move...
The moveless air (nighttime)
And doomed already were the radiant dawns,
The odour and the noise of meads,
When all thy trees were bent,
And shook with sudden whispering,
With sudden whispering lament
O fading town upon,
Upon an island hill,
Old shadows shall linger
In one ancient gate,
Thy robe is grey, thine old heart,
Now is still thy towers,
And slips between long meadows,
To the Sea, still bearing downward...
Over murmurous falls one day
And then another to the Sea and slowly thither
Many years... have gone.
All... thy trees, Kortirion, were bent,
And shook, with sudden whispering lament:
For passing, were the days, and doomed, the nights
When flittering, ghost-moths (danced)
Round tapers in the move...
The moveless air (nighttime)
And slips between long meadows to the Sea,
Still bearing, downward.
Over murmurous falls, one day
And then another to the Sea,
And slowly thither many years, have gone
Since first the elves here built,
Here built (ancient, renowned) Kortirion.
Summoning: Kortirion / album NightShade forest