Galadriel's Song of Eldamar, I Sang of Leaves - Tolkien Ensemble

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 Elven-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 Lorien!

The winter comes,

The bare and leafless day,

The leaves are falling in the stream,

The River flows away,

O Lorien!

Too long I have dwelt

Upon this hither shore,

And in a fading crown has twined

A 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?

(Printed by me-)