StoryTitle("caps", "Far over the Misty Mountains ") ?>
by J. R. R. Tolien
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far over the misty mountains cold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To dungeons deep and caverns old ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We must away ere break of day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To seek the pale enchanted gold.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dwarfs of yore made mighty spells, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While hammers fell like ringing bells", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In places deep, where dark things sleep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In hollow halls beneath the fells.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For ancient king and elvish lord ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There many a gleaming golden hoard ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They shaped and wrought, and light they caught ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To hide in gems on hilt of sword.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On silver necklaces they strung", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flowering stars, on crowns they hung ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dragon-fire, in twisted wire", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They meshed the light of moon and sun.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far over the misty mountams cold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To dungeons deep and caverns old ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We must away, ere break of day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To claim our long-forgotten gold.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Goblets they carved there for themselves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And harps of gold; where no man delves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There lay they long, and many a song ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was sung unheard by men or elves.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pines were roaring on the height, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The winds were moaning in the night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fire was red, it flaming spread;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The trees like torches blazed with light. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bells were ringing in the dale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And men looked up with faces pale; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dragon's ire more fierce than fire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Laid low their towers and houses frail.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mountains smoked beneath the moon; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dwarfs, they heard the tramp of doom. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They fled their hall to dying fall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beneath his feet, beneath the moon. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far over the misty mountains grim ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To dungeons deep and caverns dim ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We must away, ere break of day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To win our harps and gold from him!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>