"There was an old dragon under grey stone;His red eyes blinked as he lay alone

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"There was an old dragon under grey stone;
His red eyes blinked as he lay alone.
His joy was dead, and his youth spent,
He was knobbed and wrinkled, and his limbs bent
In the long years to his gold chained;
In his heart's furnace, the fire waned."
- J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Hoard"
Pauline Baynes

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