Page 9 - Of Middle Earth

The Long Looked For Sight

based on the book, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Grumbling and tired, weary and covered with sodden
mire,
They climbed aboard the vessel of Dale,
They had waited long to see their king by all hailed,
Yet now the day seemed as far away as the sun.
Defeat seemed lurking at their feet,
Triumph was a song of long ago,
Only a small tired hobbit did not sing their song of woe.
“Where do you find your courage, Bilbo?” they said,
Do you not see that we are on the path to death?
“Nay,” he replied, “Look ye to the sky, and see that for
which you would die.”
And so the clouds parted revealing that long looked for
sight,
The Lonely Mountain, a picture of power and might,
One by one the dwarves arose,
And remembered again that they had come to avenge
their woes.