<meta content="urn:uuid:fb05077e-9eb0-4d84-816a-a0dbb176445c" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="p11"><a id="a191"/><a id="a192"/><span class="t12">TIRIEL 3</span></p> <p class="p18">They sat & eat & Har & Heva smild on Tiriel<br/>Thou art a very old old man but I am older than thou<br/>How came thine hair to leave thy forehead how came thy face so brown<br/>My hair is very long my beard. doth cover all my breast<br/>God bless thy piteous face. to count the wrinkles in thy face<br/>Would puzzle Mnetha. bless thy face for thou art Tiriel<br/>Tiriel I never saw but once I sat with him & eat<br/>He was as chearful as a prince & gave me entertainment<br/>But long I staid not at his palace for I am forcd to wander<br/>What wilt thou leave us too said Heva thou shalt not leave us too<br/>For we have many sports to shew thee & many songs to sing<br/>And after dinner we will walk into the cage of Har<br/>And thou shalt help us to catch birds. & gather them ripe cherries<br/>Then let thy name be Tiriel & never leave us more<br/>If thou dost go said Har I wish thine eyes may see thy folly<br/>My sons have left me did thine leave thee O twas very cruel<br/>No venerable man said Tiriel ask me not such things<br/>For thou dost make my heart to bleed my sons were not like thine<br/>But worse O never ask me more or I must flee away<br/>Thou shalt not go said Heva till thou hast seen our singing birds<br/>And heard Har sing in the great cage & slept upon our fleeces<br/>Go not for thou art so like Tiriel. that I love thine head<br/>Tho it is wrinkled like the earth parchd with the summer heat<br/>Then Tiriel rose up from the seat & said god bless these tents<br/>My Journey is oer rocks & mountains. not in pleasant vales<br/>I must not sleep nor rest because of madness & dismay<br/>And Mnetha said Thou must not go to wander dark. alone<br/>But dwell with us & let us be to thee instead of eyes<br/>And I will bring thee food old man. till death shall call thee hence<br/>Then Tiriel frownd & answerd. Did I not command you saying<br/>Madness & deep dismay posses[s] the heart of the blind man<br/>The wanderer who seeks the woods leaning upon his staff<br/>Then Mnetha trembling at his frowns led him to the tent door<br/>And gave to him his staff & blest him. he went on his way<br/>But Har & Heva stood & watchd him till he enterd the wood<br/>And then they went & wept to Mnetha. but they soon forgot their tears<br/> </p> </body> </html>