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Grains of Wheat  by Eruanna

Well, after 'The Wounded Hand' I was in an Elanor mood. :) Elanor Gamgee falls asleep on the Hill above Bag End, and in a dream learns the meaning of love.


Love

I lay upon a green green hill,
a-staring at the sky
and sang a song of days long past
as clouds went drifting by.

The Sun went down, the Moon arose
and stars flamed in the sky—
I lay upon that green green hill
as dreams went drifting by.

The Moon sailed on across the sky
but there before my eyes
one dream there stopped, and sat with me—
both beautiful and wise.

He sat beside me on the hill
with quiet eyes and fair
I might have thought a star had come
to me from heaven’s air.

I questioned him on many things
in earth and sea and skies
and all the ways that folk must go
when shadow o’er them lies.

Why the highest should suffer most
and where the answer lies
for sorrow in the tales I love
and tears in Sam-dad’s eyes.

He looked at me and said ‘Dear child,
‘tis love that suffers so.
And love it is that makes green fields
rise from out the fallow.

Deep love it is that takes the weight
that others fear to bear,
and lights anew the darkened sky
and makes all sorrows fair.’

Then wondering I took his hand
and marveled not to find
that there were only four fingers
with my own five entwined.





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