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    1. [FOLKLORE FAMILY] Princess Mee by T. R. R. Tolkien
    2. Fred Butts
    3. As recorded is his The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other verses from The Red Book Book. The Princess Mee Little Princess Mee Lovely was she As in elven-song is told; She had pearls in hair All treaded fair; of gossamer shot with gold Was her kerchief made, And a silver braid O"f stars about her throat. Of moth-web light All moonlit-white She wore a woven coat, And round her kirle Was bond a girdle Sewn with diamond dew. She walked by day Under mantle gray And Hood of clouded blue; but she went by night All glittering bright Under the starlit sky, And her slippers frail Of fishes' mail Flashed as she went by to her dancing-pool, And on mirror cool Of windless water played. As a mist of light In whirling flight A glint like glass she made Wherever her feet Of silver fleet flicked the dancing-floor. She looked on high To the roofless sky, And she looked to the shadowy shore; Then round she went, And her eyes she bent And saw beneath her go A Princess Shee As fair as Mee; They were dancing toe to toe! Shee was a light As Mee, as a bright; But Shee was,strange to tell, Hanging down With starry crown Into a bottomless well! Her gleaming eyes In great surprise Looked up top the eyes of Mee; A marvelous thing, Head down to swing Above a starry sea! Only their feet Could ever meet; For where the ways might lie To find a land Where they do not stand but hang down in the sky No one could tell Nor learn in spell In all the elven-lore. So still on her own an elf alone Dancing as before With pearls in hair And kittle fair And slippers frail Of fishes' mail went Mee; Of fishes' mail And slippers frail And kittle fair With pearls in hair went Shee!

    05/05/2001 05:03:28