[piosenniel]

~*~ Maegaladiel ~*~

You have, quite by chance, discovered my secret obsession:

From the mortal woman to her beloved Legolas ~~

Ode on Everlasting Love

O no, beloved, I am most sure
Those virtuous habits we acquire,
As being with the Fëa entire,
Must with it evermore endure.

For if where Dark and Shadow reside
We find so foul a guilt remain,
As never dying in his stain,
Still punished in the Fëa doth bide;

Much more that true and real joy
Which in loving Legolas is found
Must be more solid in its ground
Than Doom or Death can e’er destroy.

Else should our Fëar in vain elect,
And vainer yet the Valar’s laws,
When to an everlasting Cause
They gave a perishing Effect.

Nor here in Arda, then, nor above,
Our good affection can impair;
For where Eru doth admit the fair,
Think you that he excludeth Love?

*with apologies to: Lord Herbert of Cherbury; from An Ode upon a Question Moved – Whether Love Should Continue for Ever?
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These are the sorts of poems I write between returning errant posts to Gamers . . . [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]