Roads Go Ever Ever On


from The Hobbit

Roads go ever ever on,
 Over rock and under tree,
By caves where sun has never shone,
 By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
 And through the merry flowers of June,
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.

J. R. R. Tolkien 1892-1973

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