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Roads Go Ever Ever On                                       

From The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By cave where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea:
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.

Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.