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Title: Fading (#1278)
Author: Cadiliniel
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Bombadil's Corner
Description: A poem from Denethor's POV, on the matter of Finduilas's death.
Published: 21 Sep 2004
Updated: 21 Sep 2004
Warnings:
Type: Angst
Characters: Denethor, Finduilas


Chapter 1 - Fading

Your face fades from my mind's eye,
Your visage that was once so clear.
I can do nothing but sit here and cry
For the love forever lost from here.

Echoes of once ringing laughter
Are turned to no more than a knell.
Deafening to me that sound hereafter,
Pulling me down to my awaiting hell.

Duty requires that I must go on
And so I will, though darkness falls.
I love my land as I did my Amroth swan,
Though her memory stays within these halls.
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