The White Tower

While, i, look at the moon ... alone i look out under moonlight
 From in my windy tower ... from in my white and windy tower
 Ye bide no moment and await no hour,
 But go with solemn song and harpers tune
 Through the darkest night ... through darkest night and shadow seashores
 To the distant trees, the trees that brought the light to valar
 Whose fruit and flower are the moon and sun,
 Where light of earth is ended and begun.
 Here only comes at whiles a wind to blow
 Returning now down ... down the way ye go,
 With perfume place, and places of unearthly trees ... of unearthly trees
 Here only long ... afar through window pane
 I glimpse the sound of the golden rain
 that falls now down ... for ever on the outer seas ... on the outer seas.
 Ir in-elenath gwennin
 I' il thinna, i amar u-dartha
 Am man darthon, a linnon
 Nu galad hen fireb?
 (When the starry host has departed
 The star fades, the world does not wait
 Why do i linger and sing
 Under this fading mortal light?)