Galadriel's Song of Eldamar

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew,
Of wind I sang, and 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 Lorien! The Winter comes, the bare and leaveless Day;
The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away.
O Lorien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore
And a fading crown have twinded the golden elanor.
But if of the ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me,
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

Lyrics by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, token of "The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter VIII: Farewell to Lórien"

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