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JRR Tolkien JRR Tolkien
(1892 - 1973)
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The Sea
 
  To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.
West, west away, the round sun is falling.
Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling?
The voices of my people gone before me?
I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me;
For our days are ending and our years failing.
I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing.
Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling,
Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling.
In Eressea, in Elvenhome, that no man can discover,
Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!

JRR Tolkien


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Annie Cordelia Adams (1/6/2008 6:12:00 PM)
Tolkien was not only a poet, but but a man of irrevocable understanding of what he wrote. I can read this, and see that he sought to know a passion for the sea, himself.
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