“Bilbo's Song” | SONG of the week

Text source: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 3

Song album: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - The Complete Recordings

I sit beside the fire and think

   of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
   in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
   in autumns that there were,

with morning mist and silver sun

   and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think

   of how the world will be

when winter comes without a spring

   that I shall never see.

For still there are so many things

   that I have never seen:

in every wood in every spring

   there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think

   of people long ago,

and people who will see a world

   that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think

   of times there were before,

I listen for returning feet

   and voices at the door.

"Much experience is the crown of old men"

Sirach 25:6