What if "The Lord of the Rings"had been written by Wallace Stevens

'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Crebain' by Wallace R R Stevens

by Urthgar

I
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the crebain.

II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three crebain.

III
The crebain whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV
A man and an elf-maiden
Are one.
A man and an elf-maiden and a crebain
Are one.

V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The crebain whistling
Or just after.

VI
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the crebain
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

VII
O thin men of Rohan,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the crebain
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the crebain is involved
In what I know.

IX
When the crebain flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

X
At the sight of crebain
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.

XI
He rode over Gondor
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For crebain.

XII
The river is moving.
The crebain must be flying.

XIII
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The crebain sat
In the mallorn-limbs.