Song of Eldamar

[intro] [verse] 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, [verse 2] 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. [Chorus] 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. [Verse2] 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? [Chorus] 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. [Outro]