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 upon the branching years

While here beyond the Sundering Seas now fall 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?