I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold .....

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The Lord of the Rings

"Galadriel's lament", sung by Galadriel in her Swan-ship in Lothlórien for the Fellowship of the Ring:

 

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:

Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.

Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea,

And by the strand of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree.

Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone,

In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion.

There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years,

While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears.

O Lórien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day;

The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away.

O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore

And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor.

But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,

What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

J.R.R. Tolkien

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- Robinia pseudoacacia 'Frisia'

This large, fast-growing tree has droopy leaves that stay sunny yellow from spring until frost, spiny shoots, and fragrant white flowers in late spring and early summer on pendent racemes. The flowers are followed by smooth brown seed pods that are also interesting. 'Frisia' is one of the cultivars that is grown more for foliage than for its flowers and it does not flower as freely as the species.

 

- Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Frisia’ is een van de bekendste en populairste cultivars van de Valse acacia of Schijnacacia. Omwille van zijn goudgele blad wordt hij ook wel de Gouden Valse Acacia genoemd. Grote voordeel in vergelijking met vele andere geelbladige bomen is dat deze cultivar zijn gele blad de hele zomer behoudt. De bladeren zijn groot en geveerd.

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