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O Elbereth!  Gilthoniel!                                        

From The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
  O Queen beyond the Western Seas!
O Light to us that wander here
  Amid the world of woven trees!

Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!
  Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath,
Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee
  In a far land beyond the Sea.

O stars that in the Sunless Year
  With shining hand by her were sown,
In windy fields now bright and clear
  We see your silver blossom blown!

O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
  We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees,
  Thy starlight on the Western Seas.