Rivendell - The Song Of Eldamar lyrics

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I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:<br />

Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.<br />

Beyond the Sun, beyond the Moon, the foam was on the Sea, <br />

And by the strand of Ilmarin there grew a golden Tree.<br />

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Beneath the stars of Ever-eve in Eldamar it shone, <br />

In Eldamar beside the walls of Elven Tirion.<br />

There long the golden leaves have grown upon the branching years, <br />

While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall the Elven-tears.<br />

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O Lórien! The Winter comes, the bare and leafless Day; <br />

The leaves are falling in the stream, the River flows away.<br />

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But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me, <br />

What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?<br />

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O Lórien! Too long I have dwelt upon this Hither Shore<br />

And in a fading crown have twined the golden elanor.</