The White Tower

While I look at the moon... Alone I look out under moonlight

From in my windy tower... From in my white and windy tower

Ye bide no moment and await no hour

But go with solemn song and harpers tune

Through the darkest night... Through darkest night and shadow seashores

To the distant trees, the trees that brought the light to Valar

Whose fruit and flower are the moon and sun

Where light of earth is ended and begun

Here only comes at whiles a wind to blow

Returning now down.... Down the way ye go

With perfume place, and places of unearthly trees... Of unearthly trees

Here only long... Afar through window pane

I glimpse the sound of the golden rain

That falls now down... Oor ever on the outer seas... on the outer seas

Ir in-elenath gwennin

I' il thinna, I amar u-dartha

Am man darthon, a linnon

Nu galad hen fireb?

(When the starry host has departed

The star fades, the world does not wait

Why do I linger and sing

Under this fading mortal light?)