This is Bilbo's walking-song that Frodo modified to sing during his last days in ME, just before they set sail. It brings me to tears every time I read it.
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
"And as if in answer, from down below, coming up the road out of the valley, voices sang..."
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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