Deep In the Mountain Tarns

Deep In The Mountain Tarns Deep in the mountains, Beyond a lost road, Mystical spirits Have their wild abode. Lonely abysses Of primeval dread, Forests were freely the shy fairies tread. The eagle hovers In safety there, With keen eyes watching Nest and lair. Green are those waters, Dark as ancient bronze, Harbors for the souls Of dreaming swans. Through mossy branches, Through cavernous rifts, Red-sun down Cool fragrance drifts. He who enters That lost abode Never more needs A wandering road. R. J. Lindley Note: tarn [tahrn] Word Origin noun 1. a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque. 1300-50; Middle English terne < Old Norse tjorn pond, pool www.dictionary.com/browse/tarn A dialectal word popularized by the Lake poets. tarn in Science Expand. tarn. (tärn) A small mountain lake, especially one formed as a glacier melts, filling a cirque with water.