BILBO’S LAST SONG (at the Grey Havens)...byJ. R. R. Tolkien


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Day is ended, dim my eyes,
but journey long before me lies.
 Farewell, friends! I hear the call.
The ship’s beside the stony wall.
 Foam is white and waves are grey;
beyond the sunset leads my way.
 Foam is salt, the wind is free;
I hear the rising of the Sea.

Farewell, friends! The sails are set,
the wind is east, the moorings fret.
Shadows long before me lie,
beneath the ever-bending sky,
 but islands lie behind the Sun
 that I shall raise ere all is done;
 lands there are to west of West,
 where night is quiet and sleep is rest.

Guided by the Lonely Star.
 beyond the utmost harbour-bar,
I’ll find the havens fair and free.
and beaches of the Starlit Sea.
 Ship, my ship! I seek the West,
 and fields and mountains ever blest.
Farewell to Middle-earth at last,
 I see the Star above your mast!

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