Friday, April 5, 2013

Hobbiton

A hobbit-hole means comfort, yes indeed,
And wine, and tea, and crumpets piping hot;
It means good conversation, over seed-
Cakes, and a little bit of what is not
Present anywhere but in the Shire:
Good solid folk, all unaffected by
The world outside and all its sticky mire:
The evil tinging every view, the sly
Calculation that goes deeper than
The silver or the deed, and dives into
Darkness and dark action. In this, man,
Elf, dwarf, and all the other crew
Excel, beneath the glamour and the gleam.
Only hobbits are the way they seem.

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