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Galadriel's Song of Eldamar
GALADRIEL'S SONG OF ELDAMAR
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 upou the branching
yeas,
While here beyond the Sundering Seas now falI 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?
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
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