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From The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King--Book Six, Chapter IX --

             The Grey Havens

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  ... Frodo had been ill ... and he seemed half in a dream.

"It is gone for ever," he said, "and now all is dark and empty."

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 ... his eyes seemed to see things very far away.

"What's the matter, Mr. Frodo?" said Sam.

"I am wounded," he answered, "wounded; it will never really heal."

 

 

 

VETERAN

 

                         I wake to darkness,

                         Mired in my spirit -

                         No ease, no succor, no peace.

 

              Though Shadow proved a passing thing,

              Night has fallen on my heart.

              I walk alone,

              More memory than mortal,

              More victim than victor.

              A veteran.

              Dolorous doom too readily remembered,

              Its full weight worn in my bones.

 

                         There is no place beneath the sun

                                                     for such a one as I.

 

                                                     Oh, let me rest!  Ah, Elbereth!

           The dark has eaten at my soul.

                           And though Light's grace was given me,

                      I fear - I know! - I am not whole ...!

 

                                                                                            By Constance G.J. Wagner

                                                                            

 

 



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