In storming nights and by harsh sea
Could one maybe see:
Wraithlike outlines
More shade than to form a host
Runs abeam of the coast
To the reef and is gone like a ghost ...
It was once in a stormy night
As the waves were tower-high upright
As the bells sounded loud alarm
A ship closed in to shore's rock's harm
Corsairs had brought false signal light
Sought to take it without fight
To plunder it within a whiff
When it would have found its end upon the cliff.
Sails were torn, planks broke once so proud
Mast and hull shattered aloud
Screams of men were sounds of plea
Until they were taken by the sea
The next morning lay in mist
The Corsairs about their loot consist
Until they became then suddenly aware
No ship, no wrack and no loot
Only the sea was calm as ever there
In storming nights and by harsh sea
Could one maybe see:
Wraithlike outlines
More shade than to form a host
Runs abeam of the coast
To the reef and is gone like a ghost ...
Then, a fire in the night
The ship in flames alight
See, a memorial that awoke once more
From gone days of yore
It's shining bright
It's shining far
It cannot be overlooked
And nevermore a ship ended as the Teleri's star.
Though the Elder say
That the ship had since that day
Since that utter darksome night
Ever returned here to this bay
I stand humbly upon the height
An inner sway draws me here night for night
To the place of darkest sin
I think long of those who are blessed
Will follow them soon into the west
In storming nights and by harsh sea
Could one maybe see:
Wraithlike outlines
More shade than to form a host
Runs abeam of the coast
To the reef and is gone like a ghost ...
Then, a fire in the night
The ship in flames alight
See, a memorial that awoke once more
From gone days of yore
It's shining bright
It's shining far
It cannot be overlooked
And nevermore a ship ended as the Teleri's star.
I stand humbly upon the height
An inner sway draws me here night for night
To the place of darkest sin
I think long of those who are blessed
Will follow them soon into the west
