Galadriel

I look back from the silver sails
into your shining eyes
And see how love and longing
are yet parted in your heart
The leaves of Lorien left behind
beckon to you still
While I, who am weary,
sail unto undying rest
Gently do I take your hand
and give you leave to go
I press it to my heart, as though
it might mend it, as it once could
And so it is that the last gift I give
to this world are tears
These, given freely and free from regret,
to the waves that bear me far
I have fulfilled my destiny as now
I pass into the West
While you, you tarry longer
in the world that is yours still.

In the house I have not seen
for ages past, I will wait
Where the spirits of my father, mother, brothers
haunt me no more
Though here the land be ever bright
I cannot see it still
Until at last I gaze
on a ship’s brow your face
Shining like a star, a star once again
coming over the Great Sea

So this, I pray, when you have tired
of all who would have you
Who, with honest shallow hearts
and open arms welcome you
Come back to one, who, for you, forever waits
til immortality wane and turn to sorrow
Be not afraid to pass into the West
for it is here that we shall be together,
once again.